tough love（后妈的茶话会）（翻自 PrettyCake） - 梁妍.mp3

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[00:19.702]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed
[00:22.452]I must find the way to power through a noble brow
[00:25.453]I married once for love then my senses came
[00:27.952]I must marry for the stature of my husband’s name
[00:30.952]Onto marriage number two
[00:32.452]I knew what I had to do
[00:33.952]and my poor husband fell ill in a year or two
[00:36.703]solved problem number one, now to problem number two
[00:39.453]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view
[00:42.203]Would I ship her off to school?
[00:43.702]No! I told her if she stayed that she’d have to earn her keep
[00:46.453]and so she became the maid!
[00:47.952]She was lazy!
[00:48.702]She was Crazy!
[00:49.452]She was talking to the mice!
[00:50.702]She was hopelessly naive, so she had to pay the price.
[00:53.702]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind.
[00:56.452]I could have thrown her out, but I’m benevolent and kind.
[00:59.458]Mother, your heart’s too big for you!
[01:05.202]I knew what I had to do
[01:10.703]After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature.
[01:14.952]So, you lock them up
[01:15.952]Throw away the key!
[01:17.702]There’s one on every family tree
[01:20.202]Ungrateful!
[01:21.202]Hateful!
[01:22.203]Vile too! The things she put you through!
[01:26.202]Break their spirit so they obey!
[01:29.202]Now they’ll do anything you say
[01:31.952]Maybe you’d call it cruel but
[01:34.702]others would call it love
[01:37.202]Tough Love!
[01:38.702]I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?
[01:42.702]Oh, no, they're so cute when they're little but then they grow up and just…
[01:47.202]ruin everything!
[01:48.702]I never wanted children
[01:49.952]life was better on my own
[01:51.202]all the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone!
[01:54.703]But then one day I came across a flower growing free
[01:57.202]its magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me!
[01:59.952]But someone dug it up now a baby held the power
[02:02.702]so, I "borrowed “her and locked her up and hid her in a tower!
[02:05.953]Years went by, OH!
[02:07.452]The sacrifice and against my better judgment, I fed her once or twice.
[02:11.702]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young
[02:13.951]But that's messy
[02:14.952]manipulations' easily more fun
[02:17.202]A little guilt, a lot of force, of course you have to lie
[02:19.952]remind them without you, they’d shrivel up and die!
[02:22.703]They only have themselves to blame!
[02:28.202]If you'd been there, you'd do the same
[02:33.952]So, work them hard ‘til they fall in line
[02:36.953]There's one way and it's only mine
[02:39.702]Children are lazy
[02:41.203]Spoiled too
[02:42.453]But we know what to do!
[02:45.452]Govern them with a heart of stone
[02:48.202]Lock them up so they're all alone
[02:50.952]Maybe you'd call it cruel but,
[02:53.702]others would call it love, tough love!
[02:57.649]Ugh!Her own tower with a water view
[02:59.899]and she runs away the first chance she gets
[03:02.399]These wretched brats think the world owes them something
[03:07.400]But it doesn’t
[03:08.400]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand
[03:10.400]but there was more I had in mind a greater plan
[03:13.331]I never cared to share, so The King would have to fall
[03:16.080]But his child blocked the way to me and “Fairest of them all”
[03:19.021]She was chubby. She was dumb
[03:20.271]and grotesquely optimistic
[03:22.020]She needed structure in her life! She wasn’t realistic
[03:24.771]I gave her chores and took away the things that she’d enjoy
[03:27.520]but then I caught her singing songs with birds and then a boy!
[03:30.521]Love?!Was I just sit by and wait?!
[03:33.271]for her to take my crown? NO!
[03:35.020]she had sealed her fate!
[03:36.520]She had to go, and so she did and you know what they say
[03:38.771]“An apple once a day keeps your enemies away”
[03:42.020]Don’t be fooled by their tender smile!
[03:47.522]give an inch and they’ll run a mile!
[03:56.020]Our idea of a happy home
[03:58.771]Is one where we live all alone!
[04:01.520]Dark, Depressing, Desolate!
[04:04.270]Now let’s all drink to that!
[04:07.270]call us “wicked” and call us “mean”
[04:10.270]“Cruel” and everything in between
[04:13.021]You could say it’s unjust
[04:15.772]Turning their dreams to dust
[04:18.520]This is what we call love
[04:21.521]Tough Love!