I was dreaming that I was someone
I was taller, smarter, prettier
I was hoping you could help me
But you consume me, you make me dirtier

Now you'll make all seem better
If I can just give up my sorrow
Glad to hear it's so damn easy
All the time we've wasted using me, tearing me down

Tearing me down
Tearing me down
Tearing me down

I was dreaming I was such a young thing
I held magic in my fingers
Weren't you saying (Aw, weren't you saying)
How I was special (Aw, you're so special)
and then you bruised my beyond all reason

Now you'll make all seem better
If I can just give up my sorrow
Glad to hear it's so damn easy
All the time we've wasted using me, tearing me down

Tearing me down
Tearing me down
Tearing me down

I was hoping
that you could hold me
that you could help me
that you could know me
but you consume me
but you confuse me
you make me dirtier

Now you'll make all seem better
If I can just give up my sorrow
Glad to hear it's so damn easy
All the time we've wasted using me, tearing me down

Tearing me down
Tearing me down
Tearing me down