MerahPutih.com - Lagu “Mean” merupakan karya yang ditulis sekaligus diproduseri sendiri oleh Taylor Swift. Sepanjang lagu, terasa jelas bahwa liriknya menjadi bentuk respons personal Swift terhadap pengalaman menghadapi perundungan, khususnya yang ia alami di masa sekolah.
Secara makna, “Mean” menggambarkan perjuangan dalam menghadapi kritik tajam, ejekan, serta orang-orang yang berusaha merendahkan dan membuat seseorang merasa tidak berharga.
Namun, alih-alih larut dalam tekanan tersebut, lagu ini justru menegaskan pilihan untuk tetap berdiri teguh dan tidak membiarkan para perundung memenangkan keadaan.
Berikut lirik lengkapnya:
You, with your words like knives and swords
And weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again
Got me feeling like a nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded
You, picking on the weaker man
Well, you can take me down
With just one single 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
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, trying to block you out
'Cause I'll 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
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 grumbling on about how I can't sing
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 hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
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?. (far)