I feel beaten, battered, and abused
You either treat me like a king, or else I'm misused
Can't say it means a thing, the way you spin me around
It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down

You say you love me
Then you hold all these things above me
Can't say I love your push that changed me
Into the man that I will never be

I feel beaten, battered, and abused
You either treat me like a king, or else I'm misused
Can't say it means a thing, the way you spin me around
It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down

You say you love me
Then you hold all these things above me
Can't say I love your push that changed me
Into the man that I will never be

I feel beaten, battered, and abused
You either treat me like a king, or else I'm misused
Can't say it means a thing, the way you spin me around
It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down

You say you love me
Then you hold all these things above me
Can't say I love your push that changed me
Into the man that I will never be

I feel beaten, battered, and abused
(You say you love me,)
You either treat me like a king, or else I'm misused
(Then you hold all these things above me,)
Can't say it means a thing, the way you spin me around
(Can't say I love your push that changed me,)
It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down
(Into the man that I will never be.)

It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down
It's either your praise, or you're tearing me down