[00:00.000] 作词 : Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim [00:01.000] 作曲 : Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim [00:11.780]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed [00:14.327]I must find the way to power through a noble brow [00:17.251]I married once for love then my senses came [00:20.303]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name [00:23.061]Onto marriage number two [00:24.514]I knew what I had to do [00:25.829]and my poor husband fell ill in a year or two [00:28.472]Solved problem number one now to problem number two [00:31.403]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view [00:34.467]Would I ship her off to school? [00:35.654]No! I told her if she stayed that she'd have to earn her keep and so she became the maid [00:40.078]She was lazy! She was crazy! [00:41.470]She was talking to the mice! [00:42.685]She was hopelessly naive so she had to pay the price [00:45.691]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind [00:48.652]I could have thrown her out but I'm benevolent and kind [00:51.677]Mother your heart's too big for you! [00:57.130]I knew what I had to do [01:01.953]After all difficult children will take advantage of your good nature [01:06.445]So you lock them up [01:08.102]Throw away the key [01:09.847]There's one on every family tree [01:12.513]Ungrateful! [01:13.325]Hateful! [01:14.345]Vile too! The things she put you through! [01:18.457]Break their spirit so they obey [01:21.259]Now they'll do anything you say [01:23.977]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [01:26.876]others would call it love [01:29.038]Tough Love! [01:30.794]I ask you is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things? [01:34.758]Oh no they're so cute when they're little but then they grow up and just ruin everything [01:41.011]I never wanted children [01:42.215]life was better on my own [01:43.635]all the screaming nagging chilled me to the bone [01:46.691]But then one day I came across a flower growing free [01:49.550]It's magic kept me young so I kept it all for me [01:52.273]But someone dug it up now a baby held the power [01:54.922]So I "borrowed"her and locked her up and hid her in a tower [01:57.804]Years went by Oh The sacrifice [02:00.642]and against my better judgment I fed her once or twice. [02:03.798]Teenagers now I know why wild eat their young [02:06.122]But that's messy [02:07.019]Manipulation's easily more fun [02:09.215]A little guilt a lot of force of course you have to lie [02:12.021]remind them that without you they'd shrivel up and die [02:15.000]They only have themselves to blame [02:20.416]If you'd been there you'd do the same [02:25.791]So work them hard 'til they fall in line [02:29.006]There's one way and it's only mine [02:31.773]Children are lazy [02:33.243]Spoiled too [02:34.631]But we know what to do [02:37.372]Govern them with a heart of stone [02:40.345]Lock them up so they're all alone [02:43.028]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [02:45.948]others would call it love tough love [02:49.726]Ugh! Her own tower with a water view and she runs away the first chance she gets [02:54.840]These wretched brats think the world owes them something [02:58.601]But it doesn't [02:59.936]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand [03:02.815]but there was more I had in mind a greater plan [03:05.728]I never cared to share. So the king would have to fall [03:08.377]But his child blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all" [03:11.134]She was chubby. She was dumb and grotesquely optimistic [03:14.108]She needed structure in her life She wasn't realistic [03:16.949]I gave her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy [03:19.933]but then I caught her singing songs with birds and then a boy [03:22.904]Love?! Was I just sit by and wait for her to take my crown? No [03:26.987]She had sealed her fate! [03:28.246]She had to go and so she did and you know what they say [03:30.961]“An apple once a day keeps your enemies away” [03:34.004]Don't be fooled by their tender smile [03:39.716]Give an inch and they'll run a mile [03:48.115]Our idea of a happy home [03:50.814]Is one where we live all alone [03:53.651]Dark. Depressing. Desolate! [03:56.451]Now let's all drink to that! [03:59.414]Call us "wicked" and call us "mean"! [04:02.236]“Cruel”and everything in between [04:05.001]You could say it's unjust [04:07.765]Turning their dreams to dust [04:10.718]This is what we call love [04:13.530]Tough Love!