[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:19.08]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed [00:21.95]I must find the way to power through a noble brow [00:25.03]I married once for love then my senses came [00:27.81]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name [00:30.47]Onto marriage number two [00:31.93]I knew what I had to do [00:33.37]And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two [00:36.07]Solved problem number one now to problem number two [00:38.95]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view [00:41.90]Would I ship her off to school [00:43.16]No I told her if she stayed that she'd have to earn her keep [00:45.92]And so she became the maid [00:47.51]She was lazy [00:48.07]She was crazy [00:48.73]She was talking to the mice [00:50.16]She was hopelessly naive so she had to pay the price [00:53.12]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind [00:56.03]I could have thrown her out but I'm benevolent and kind [00:58.93]Mother your heart's too big for you [01:04.68]I knew what I had to do [01:09.13]After all difficult children will take advantage of your good nature [01:13.80]So you lock them up from away the key [01:17.33]There's one on every family tree [01:20.09]Ungratefull [01:20.94]Hateful [01:21.61]Vile too the things she put you through [01:25.78]Break their spirit so they obey [01:28.58]Now they'll do anything you say [01:31.43]Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love [01:36.43]Tough love [01:37.95]I ask you is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things [01:41.81]Oh no they're so cute when they're little but [01:44.55]Then they grow up and just ruin everything [01:48.28]I never wanted children life was better on my own [01:50.97]All the screaming nagging chilled me to the bone [01:54.02]But then one day I came across a flower growing free [01:56.80]It's magic kept me young so I kept it all for me [01:59.57]But someone dug it up now a baby held the power [02:02.27]So I borrowed her locked her up and hid her in a tower [02:05.39]Years went by [02:06.67]Oh the sacrifice [02:07.81]And against my better judgment I fed her once or twice [02:10.97]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young [02:13.56]But that's messy [02:14.42]Manipulation's easily more fun [02:16.59]A little guilt a lot of force of course you have to lie [02:19.41]Remind them that without you they'd shrivel up and die [02:22.40]They only have themselves to blame [02:27.80]If you'd been there you'd do the same [02:33.34]So work them hard 'til they fall in line [02:36.38]There's one way and it's only mine [02:39.23]Children are lazy [02:40.55]Spoiled too [02:42.04]But we know what to do [02:44.93]Govern them with a heart of stone [02:47.72]Lock them up so they're all alone [02:50.52]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [02:53.37]Others would call it love tough love [02:56.89]Ugh her own tower with a water view and [02:59.56]She runs away the first chance she gets [03:02.17]These wretched brats think the world owes them something [03:05.67]But it doesn't [03:07.16]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand [03:10.17]But there was more I had in mind a greater plan [03:13.04]I never cared to share so the king would have to fall [03:15.74]But his child blocked the way to me and fairest of them all [03:18.54]She was chubby she was dumb [03:19.88]And grotesquely optimistic [03:21.32]She needed structure in her life [03:22.92]She wasn't realistic [03:24.27]I gave her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy [03:27.21]But then I caught her singing songs with birds [03:29.02]And then a boy [03:30.04]Love was I just sit by and wait [03:32.90]For her to take my crown [03:34.15]No [03:34.38]She had sealed her fate [03:35.74]She had to go and so she did and you know what they say [03:38.54]An apple once a day keeps your enemies away [03:41.25]Don't be fooled by their tender smile [03:46.99]Give an inch and they'll run a mile [03:55.50]Our idea of a happy home [03:58.31]Is one where we live all alone [04:01.12]Dark [04:01.55]Depressing [04:02.44]Desolate [04:03.94]Now let's all drink to that [04:06.71]Call us wicked call us mean [04:09.56]Cruel and everything in between [04:12.43]You could say it's unjust [04:15.21]Turning their dreams to dust [04:18.07]This is what we call love tough love