Mean Titanium

you with your words like knives
and swords and weopons that you use against me
you have knocked me off my feet again
got me feeling like i'm nothing
you shout it out
but i can't hear a word you say
you're talking loud
not saying much
you with your voice like nails
on a chalkboard calling me out when i'm wounded
you picking on the weaker man
i'm criticized
but all your bullets rickochet
you shoot me down
but i get up
you can take me down
with just one single blow
but you don't know what you don't know

*i'm bulletproof,
nothing to lose
fire away fire away
rickochet, you take your aim
fire away fire away
someday i'll be living in a big ol' city
and all you're ever gonna be is mean
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
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?*

put me down
but it's you who'll have further to fall
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
raise your voice
sticks and stones may break my bones
talking loud
not saying much
i walk with my head down
tryin to block you out cause i never impress you
i just wanna feel okay again
i'll 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

*i'm bulletproof,
nothing to lose
fire away fire away
rickochet, you take your aim
fire away fire away
someday i'll be living in a big ol' city
and all you're ever gonna be is mean
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
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 grumbling on about how i can't sing
but all you are is mean
all you are is mean
stone heart
machine gun
fire at the ones who run
stone heart
that was bulletproof
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
all you are is mean
and a liar
and pathetic
and alone in life and mean
and mean
and mean
and mean

*i'm bulletproof,
nothing to lose
fire away fire away
rickochet, you take your aim
fire away fire away
someday i'll be living in a big ol' city
and all you're ever gonna be is mean
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
you shoot me down
but i won't fall
i am titanium
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?*