Brutal Lyrics
That I'll die before I drink
And I'm so caught up in the news
Of who likes me and who hates you
And I'm so tired that I might
Quit my job, start a new life
And they'd all be so disappointed
'Cause who am I if not exploited
Where's my fuckin' teenage dream
If someone tells me one more time
Enjoy your youth, I'm gonna cry
I don't stick up fro myself
I'm anxious and nothing can help
I wish I'd done this before
And I wish people liked me more
This the kind of thanks I get?
I'm relentlessly upset
They say these are the golden years
But I wish I could dissapear
Ego crush is so severe
God, it's brutal out here
And I hate the way I'm percieved
I only have two real friends
And lately I'm a nervous wreck
'Cause I love people I don't like
And I hate every song I write
And I'm not cool and I'm not smart
And I can't even parallel park
This the kind of thanks I get?
I'm relentlessly upset
They say these are the golden years
But I wish I could dissapear
Ego crush is so severe
God, it's brutal out here (just have a really good time)
God I don't even know where to start
![Cover art for Brutal lyrics by Olivia Rodrigo](https://images.songmeanings.com/e3de0afc-ae18-4e49-b010-349634336a2d.webp)
It's about the nonsense that teenagers get from elders that the teenage years are the best years of their lives. When you look back on your teenage years as an adult, you have to remember the shitty parts you wanted to forget as long as the happier times.
![Cover art for Brutal lyrics by Olivia Rodrigo](https://images.songmeanings.com/e3de0afc-ae18-4e49-b010-349634336a2d.webp)
I feel like this is a coming-of-age song, and she's singing about how after all the work she did to stay on the "good" side of her teen years, she's now entering adulthood and it's WAY harder than she thought. None of the things are the way she thought they'd be, and people are even more mean and less patient than they were when she was younger. Now at 17, she's started to get treated more like an adult, even if she isn't quite an adult yet, and finding out that, yeah, it really IS brutal out here.