Taylor Swift – Mean (Taylor’s Version)

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 You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me
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 You have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like a nothing
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 You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I'm wounded
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 You,  picking on the weaker man

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   Well, you can take me down,  with just one single
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 blow,  but you don't know what you don't know

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 Someday, I'll be living in a big old city, and all you're ever gonna be is mean
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 Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
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And all you're ever gonna be is mean, why you gotta be

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 so mean?

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 You, with your switching sides, and your wildfire lies and your humiliation
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 You have pointed out my flaws again, as if I don't already see them
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   I walk with my head down, trying to block you out, 'cause I'll never impress you
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 I just wanna feel okay again

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   I bet you got pushed around,  somebody made you
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 cold, but the cycle ends right now, ’cause you can't lead me down that road
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And you don't know what you don't know

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 Someday, I'll be living in a big old city, and all you're ever gonna be is mean
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 Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
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And all you're ever gonna be is mean, why you gotta be

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 so mean?
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And I can see you years from now in a bar,  talking over a football
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 game, with that same big loud opinion but   nobody's listen-
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-ing, washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
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 Drunk and grumbling on about how I    can't sing,  but all you are

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 is mean,           all you are is mean, and a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life
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And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean

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But someday, I'll be living in a big old city, and all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah
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 Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
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And all you're ever gonna be is mean (Why you gotta be so mean?)

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 Someday, I'll be living in a big old city (why you gotta be so mean?)
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And all you're ever gonna be is mean (why you gotta be so mean?)
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 Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me (why you gotta be so mean?)
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But all you're ever gonna be is mean, why you gotta be

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 so mean?