Mean (Taylor's Version) chords by Taylor Swift

🎸 Verse 1:
G#m       B
You, with your words like knives
   G
And swords and weapons that you use against me
G#m    B        G
You have knocked me off my feet again

Got me feelin' like a nothing
G#m       B           G
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard

Calling me out when I'm wounded
G#m  B          G
You, pickin' on the weaker man

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
B            G
 Well, you can take me down
        G   B
With just one single blow
   G
But you don't know what you don't know

🎸 Chorus:
 G     B   G#m         G
Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ole city
   G     B         G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
 G    B   G#m           G
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
   G     B        G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
           G
Why you gotta be so mean?

🎸 Interlude:
G  C  G


🎸 Verse 2:
G#m        B
You, with your switching sides
     G
And your wildfire lies and your humiliation
G#m    B       G
You have pointed out my flaws again

As if I don't already see them
G#m      B             G
 I walk with my head down, trying to block you out

'Cause I'll never impress you
G#m   B      G
I just wanna feel okay again

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
B             G
 I bet you got pushed around
     G    B
Somebody made you cold

But the cycle ends right now
       G
'Cause you can't lead me down that road

And you don't know what you don't know

🎸 Chorus:
 G     B   G#m         G
Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ole city
   G     B         G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
 G    B   G#m           G
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
   G     B        G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
           G
Why you gotta be so mean?

🎸 Interlude:
G  C  G


🎸 Instrumental:
G  B  G


🎸 Bridge:
      B
And I can see you years from now in a bar
G         G    B
 Talking over a football game
                    G    G  B
With that same big, loud opinion, but nobody's listening
                 G#m   B    G
Washed up and ranting about the same ole bitter things
 B               G#m B   G
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing
          G
But all you are is mean

🎸 Interlude:
G  B  G#m


Buildup:
 G        G
All you are is mean
    B      G#m
And a liar, and pathetic
   G         G
And alone in life, and mean
   B     G#m    G
And mean, and mean, and mean

🎸 Chorus:
 G     B   G#m         G
Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ole city
   G     B         G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
 G    B   G#m           G
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
   G     B        G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so mean?
 G     B   G#m         G
Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ole city

(Why you gotta be so mean)
   G     B        G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean

(Why you gotta be so mean)
 G     B   G#m           G
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me

(Why you gotta be so mean)
   G      B        G
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
           G
Why you gotta be so mean?