Music with Meaning [is very hard to find]

8: Mean - Taylor Swift

Chapter Eight - Mean

This is quite a recent song and when I heard it I was actually being bullied at the time. Ironic, right? It's a cruel world. I love how this is basically Taylor Swift getting back at anyone who's victimised her in a subtle way. To everyone getting bullied out there, screw them! You rock :)

Mean - Taylor Swift Lyrics

You, with your words like knives

And swords and weapons that you use against me

You, knock me off my feet again,

Got me feeling like a nothing

You, with your voice like nails

On a chalk board, calling me out when I'm wounded

You, picking on the weaker man

Well then

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 old 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 want to feel okay 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 old 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 you 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 rumbling 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 old city

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Yeah someday I'll be big enough

So you can't hurt me

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so (mean)

Someday I'll be living in a big old city

(Why you gotta be so mean)

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?