Tough Love - PattyCake.mp3

[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!