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