E Asus2 Bsus4 C#m D
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Verse:
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me.
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like a nothing.
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I'm wounded.
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You, picking on the weaker man
Pre-chorus:
Bsus4 E Asus2
Well, you can take me down with just one single
Bsus4 Asus2
blow. But you don't know, what you don't know...
Chorus:
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and
E Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and
E Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
E
Why you gotta be so mean?
D E
(...)
Verse:
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You, with your switching sides and your wildfire lies and your humiliation.
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
You have pointed out my flaws again as if I don't already see them.
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
I walk with my head down trying to block you out 'cause I'll never impress you
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
I just want to feel okay again.
Pre-chorus:
Bsus4 E Asus2
I'll bet you got pushed around. Somebody made you
Bsus4 Asus2
cold, but the cycle ends right now 'cause you can't lead me down that road and
Asus2
you don't know, what you don't know...
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Chorus:
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and
E Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and
E Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
E
Why you gotta be so mean?
Mandolin solo:
D E Bsus4 Asus2
Bridge:
Bsus4 E Asus2 Bsus4
And I can see you years from now in a bar talking over a football game
E Asus2
with that same big, loud opinion but nobody's listening.
Bsus4 C#m Bsus4 Asus2
Washed up and ranting about the same ol' bitter things.
Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing,
but all you are is
E Bsus4 C#m
mean.
Asus2
All you are is
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
mean and a liar and pathetic and alone in life and
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
mean and mean and mean and mean. But
Chorus:
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and
E Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah-yeah.
E Bsus4 C#m Asus2
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and
E Bsus4 Asus2 E
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
(Why you gotta be so mean?)
Bsus4 C#m Asus2 E
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and
(Why you gotta be so mean?)
Bsus4 Asus2 E
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
(Why you gotta be so mean?)
Bsus4 C#m Asus2 E
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and
(Why you gotta be so mean?)
Bsus4 Asus2
all you're ever gonna be is mean.
E
Why you gotta be so mean?
