What are the lyrics to 'mean' by Taylor Swift?

Answer 1

You, with your words like knives and swords

And weapons that you use against me

You, have knocked my off my feet again,

Got me feeling like a nothing

You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard,

Calling me out when I'm wounded

You, picking on the weaker man,

Well you can take me down,

With just one single blow,

But you don't know what you don't know

Someday, I'll be,

Living in a big 'ole city

And all you're, ever gonna be is mean

Someday, I'll be,

Big enough so you can't hit me

And all you're ever gonna be is mean,

Why you gotta be so mean?

You, with your switching sides,

And your wildfire lies and your humiliation,

You, have pointed out my flaws again,

As if I don't already see them,

I walk with my head down,

Try to block you out cause I never impress you,

I, just wanna be ok again

I bet you got pushed around,

Somebody made you cold,

But the cycle ends right now,

Cause you can't lead me down that road,

And you don't know,

What you don't know

Someday, I'll be,

Living in a big 'ole city

And all you're, ever gonna be is mean

Someday, I'll be,

Big enough so you can't hit me

And all you're ever gonna be is mean,

Why you gotta be so mean?

And I can see your years from now in a bar,

Talking over a football game,

With that same big loud opinion,

But, nobody's listening,

Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things

Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing

But all you are is mean

All you are is mean

And a liar

And pathetic

And alone in life

And mean

And mean

And mean

And mean

But someday, I'll be,

Living in a big 'ole city

And all you're, ever gonna be is mean

Yeah!

Someday, I'll be,

Big enough so you can't hit me

And all you're ever gonna be is mean,

Why you gotta be so mean?

Someday, I'll be,

Living in a big 'ole city

And all you're, ever gonna be is mean

(Why you gotta be so mean?)

Someday, I'll be,

Big enough so you can't hit me

(Why you gotta be so mean?)

And all you're ever gonna be is mean,

Why you gotta be so mean?

Answer 2

"Mean" is about a critic who said that Taylor Swift couldn't sing and was just being down-right mean to her- so being Taylor Swift, she wrote a song about it.