Hi, my name's whatever, and I used to be cruel, Whispered in hallways, ran my own little school of who's in, who's out, who gets to eat lunch here, Built my whole power out of other girls' fear. Called her fat behind her back at recess, Watched her cry in the bathroom, called it "just a mess," Didn't even want to be that girl, But cruelty was currency in that whole fucking world. Welcome to Mean Girls Anonymous, Where we own the shit we did instead of hiding from us, I was cruel because I was scared and small, That's not an excuse — I'm just naming it, that's all. Mean Girls Anonymous, hi, we've all been there, Both sides of the joke, both hands in the snare, Mean Girls Anonymous — we're not asking to be absolved, Just done passing down a war that never should've evolved. Built my whole identity on who I wasn't, Laughed along with jokes that I knew weren't funny, weren't fair, weren't mine to make, Thought protecting myself meant somebody else should break. Nobody taught us different, we just repeated what got done to us until we completed the fucking circle — girl hurts girl hurts girl, Same trap, different decade, same fucked-up world. Welcome to Mean Girls Anonymous, Where we own the shit we did instead of hiding from us, I was cruel because I was scared and small, That's not an excuse — I'm just naming it, that's all. Mean Girls Anonymous, hi, we've all been there, Both sides of the joke, both hands in the snare, Mean Girls Anonymous — we're not asking to be absolved, Just done passing down a war that never should've evolved. (dark, gritty guitar solo — no triumph in it, just teeth) To the girl I called out by the lockers, To the ones I let get mocked while I stood watching, shocked at nothing, did nothing, said nothing at all — I see you. I was wrong. That's my apology, that's all. Welcome to Mean Girls Anonymous, Where we own the shit we did instead of hiding from us, Mean Girls Anonymous, hi, we've all been there, Mean Girls Anonymous — we're not asking to be absolved, Just done passing down a war that never should've evolved. Never should've evolved.
