Taylor Swift
Mean
Speak Now
2010
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

Key: 

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
 -    022100
 -    x24442
 -  x46654
 -    x02220
 -    xx0232
 - x698xx


Intro:
           
You with your 


words 
              
like knives an

  
d swords
And weapons that 
you use against me 
      
You have knock

ed me 
       
off my feet ag

ain

Got me feeling like a nothing
           
You with your 


voice like 
           
nails on a cha

lk board
Callin me out when I'm wounded
          
You picking on

     
 the weaker ma

n


Refrain 1:

  Well you can

 take me down 
             
  with just on

        
e single blow
    
But you don't 

know
what you don't know


Chorus 1:
            
Someday I'll b

  
e living 
             
in a big old c

ity 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
            
Someday I'll b

  
e big 
              
enough so you 

      
can't hit me 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
              
Why you gotta 

         -
be so mean?


Verse 2:
           
You with your 

              

       

switching side

s and
     
Your wild fire

 lies 
and your humiliation
          
You have point

             
ed out my flaw

                                                 
s again
        (hold)                      
As if I don't already see them
           
   I walk with

                          
 my head down
             
trying to bloc

                              
k you out 
cause I never impress you
          
I just wanna f

                                                              
eel okay again


Refrain 2:
             
  I bet you go

              
t pushed aroun

         
d
            
  Somebody mad

                                           
e you cold
  
But the cycle ends right now cause
    
You can't lead

 me down that 

road
                        (hold)                                       
And you don't know what you don't know


Chorus 2:
            
Someday I'll b

  
e living 
             
in a big old c

ity 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
            
Someday I'll b

  
e big 
              
enough so you 

      
can't hit me 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
              
Why you gotta 

           
be so mean?


Guitar Solo: -----


Bridge:
            
And I can't se

e you years 
from now in a bar
             
  Talking over

           
 a football ga

me
With that same big loud opinion
            
But no one's l

    
istening
Washed up and ranting about the 
 
same old  bitt

  
er  things

Drunk and grum

bling all 
           
about how I   

     
can't sing
              
But all you ar

         
e is mean
             
All you are is

 
 mean and a
          
liar and pathe

tic
             
And alone in l

        
ife and mean
            
and mean and m

#      
ean and mean


Chorus 3:

Someday I'll b

e living 
in a big old city 
And all you're ever 
gonna be is mean yeah
            
Someday I'll b

  
e big 
              
enough so you 

      
can't hit me 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
Why you gotta be so mean?


Chorus 4:
            
Someday I'll b

  
e living 
             
in a big old c

ity 
             
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me

an
            
Someday I'll b

  
e big 
              
enough so you 

      
can't hit me 
       
And all you're

 
 ever 
            
gonna be is me


an
              
Why you gotta 

      
be so mean?