[00:00.00] 作词 : Tony Wakim&Layne Stein

[00:01.00] 作曲 : Tony Wakim&Layne Stein

[00:18.34]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed

[00:21.23]I must find the way to power through a noble brow

[00:24.17]I married once for love then my senses came

[00:27.00]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name

[00:29.86]Onto marriage number two

[00:31.01]I knew what I had to do

[00:32.32]and my poor husband fell ill in a year or two

[00:35.45]Solved problem number one now to problem number two

[00:38.43]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view

[00:41.03]Would I ship her off to school?

[00:42.34]No! I told her if she stayed that she'd have to earn her keep and so she became the maid!

[00:46.69]She was lazy!

[00:47.40]She was crazy!

[00:48.41]She was talking to the mice!

[00:49.45]She was hopelessly naive so she had to pay the price.

[00:52.58]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind.

[00:55.28]I could have thrown her out but I'm benevolent and kind.

[00:58.40]Mother your heart's too big for you!

[01:03.93]I knew what I had to do

[01:08.53]After all difficult children will take advantage of your good nature

[01:13.32]So you lock them up

[01:14.77]Throw away the key!

[01:16.44]There's one on every family tree

[01:19.13]Ungrateful!

[01:19.94]

[01:20.66]Vile too! The things she put you through!

[01:24.92]Break their spirit so they obey

[01:27.68]Now they'll do anything you say

[01:30.53]Maybe you'd call it cruel but

[01:33.30]others would call it love

[01:35.31]Though Love!

[01:37.01]I ask you is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?

[01:41.35]Oh no they're so cute when they're little but then they grow up and just..

[01:45.45]ruin everything!

[01:47.54]I never wanted children

[01:48.95]life was better on my own

[01:50.05]all the screaming nagging chilled me to the bone!

[01:53.07]But then one day I came across a flower growing free

[01:56.05]It's magic kept me young so I kept it all for me!

[01:58.91]But someone dug it up now a baby held the power

[02:01.37]So I "borrowed"her and locked her up and hid her in a tower!

[02:04.48]Years went by oH! The sacrifice!

[02:07.24]and against my better judgment I fed her once or twice.

[02:10.10]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young!

[02:13.17]But that's messy!

[02:13.93]Manipulation's easily more fun!

[02:15.68]A little guilt a lot of force of course you have to lie!

[02:18.42]remind them that without you they'd shrivel up and die!

[02:21.30]They only have themselves to blame!

[02:26.78]If you'd been there you'd do the same!

[02:32.15]So work them hard 'til they fall in line!

[02:35.39]There's one way and it's only mine!

[02:38.05]Children are lazy!

[02:39.46]Spoiled too!

[02:40.87]But we know what to do!

[02:43.83]Govern them with a heart of stone!

[02:46.62]Lock them up so they're all alone!

[02:49.37]Maybe you'd call it cruel but

[02:52.22]others would call it love tough love!

[02:55.98]Ugh! Her own tower with a water view and she runs away the first chance she gets!

[03:01.10]These wretched brats think the world owes them something.

[03:04.86]But it doesn't

[03:06.07]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand but there was more I had in mind a greater plan.

[03:12.27]I never cared to share. So the king would have to fall

[03:14.97]But his child blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all"

[03:17.81]She was chubby. She was dumb and grotesquely optimistic

[03:20.68]She needed structure in her life! She wasn't realistic!

[03:23.53]I gave her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy but then I caught her singing songs with birds and then a boy!

[03:29.66]Love?! Was I just sit by and wait for her to take my crown? NO!

[03:33.79]She had sealed her fate!

[03:34.91]She had to go and so she did and you know what they say

[03:37.69]“An apple once a day keeps your enemies away”“

[03:40.51]Don't be fooled by their tender smile!

[03:46.15]Give an inch and they'll run a mile!

[03:54.60]Our idea of a happy home

[03:57.27]Is one where we live all alone!

[04:00.09]Dark.

[04:00.81]Depressing.

[04:01.47]Desolate!

[04:02.69]Now let's all drink to that!

[04:05.64]Call us "wicked"

[04:06.89]and call us "mean"

[04:08.74]“Cruel”and everything in between.

[04:11.55]You could say it's unjust!

[04:14.47]Turning their dreams to dust!

[04:17.27]This is what we call love

[04:19.98]Tough Love!