Tough Love（后妈茶话会） - 火山33.mp3

[00:19.838]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed
[00:22.631]I must find the way to power through a noble brow
[00:25.669]I married once for love, then my sences came
[00:28.277]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name
[00:31.021]Onto marriage number two
[00:32.433]I knew what I had to do
[00:33.824]And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two
[00:36.674]Solved problem number one, now to problem number two
[00:39.728]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view
[00:42.408]Would I ship her off to school?
[00:43.681]No! I told her if she stayed that she'd have
[00:45.453]To earn her keep and so she became the maid
[00:48.097]She was lazy
[00:48.692]She was crazy
[00:49.502]She was talking to the mice
[00:50.826]She was hopelessly naive, so she had to pay the price
[00:53.846]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind
[00:56.746]I could have thrown her out, but I'm benevolent and kind
[00:59.695]Mother, your heart's too big for you
[01:05.200]I knew what I had to do
[01:10.198]After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature
[01:14.318]So you lock them up from away the key
[01:18.116]There's one on every family tree
[01:20.503]Ungrateful
[01:21.391]Hateful
[01:22.111]Vile too, the things she put you through
[01:26.444]Break their spirit so they obey
[01:29.209]Now they'll do anything you say
[01:32.004]Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love
[01:36.991]Tough love
[01:38.263]I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?
[01:42.648]Oh no, they're so cute when they're little but
[01:45.721]Then they grow up and just ruin everything
[01:49.121]I never wanted children, life was better on my own
[01:51.845]All the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone
[01:54.588]But then one day I came across a flower growing free
[01:57.492]It's magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me
[02:00.214]But someone dug it up, now a baby held the power
[02:03.613]So I "borrowed" her, locked her up and hid her in a tower
[02:05.971]Years went by, Oh, the sacrifice
[02:08.452]And against my better judgment, I fed her once or twice
[02:11.663]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young
[02:14.100]But that's messy
[02:15.186]Manipulation's easily more fun
[02:17.053]A little guilt, a lot of force of course you have to lie
[02:19.832]Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die
[02:22.836]They only have themselves to blame
[02:28.592]If you'd been there, you'd do the same
[02:34.029]So work them hard 'til they fall in line
[02:37.068]There's one way and it's only mine
[02:39.908]Children are lazy
[02:41.193]Spoiled too
[02:42.608]But we know what to do
[02:45.507]Govern them with a heart of stone
[02:48.344]Lock them up, so they're all alone
[02:51.094]Maybe you'd call it cruel but
[02:53.971]Others would call it love, tough love
[02:57.464]Ugh, her own tower with a water view and
[02:59.994]She runs away, the first change she gets
[03:03.198]These wretched brats think the
[03:04.803]World owes them something, but it doesn't
[03:07.878]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand
[03:10.658]But there was more, I had in mind a greater plan
[03:13.819]I never cared to share, so the king would have to fall
[03:16.249]But his child blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all"
[03:19.216]She was chubby, she was dumb
[03:20.373]And grotesquel optimistic
[03:22.101]She need structure in her life
[03:23.541]She wasn't realistic
[03:25.277]I give her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy
[03:27.764]But then I cought her singing songs with birds and then a boy
[03:30.779]Love? Was I just sit by and wait?
[03:33.188]For her to take my crown? No
[03:36.067]She had sealed her fate
[03:36.323]She had to go, and so she did and you know what
[03:38.569]They say, "An apple once a day keeps your enemies away"
[03:42.090]Don't be fooled by their tender smile
[03:47.726]Give an inch and they'll run a mile
[03:56.267]Our idea for a happy home
[03:59.007]Is one where we live all alone
[04:01.470]Dark
[04:02.216]Depressing
[04:02.859]Desolate
[04:04.511]Now let's all drink to that
[04:07.403]Call us wicked call us mean
[04:10.194]Cruel and everything in between
[04:13.009]You could say it's unjust
[04:15.953]Turning their dreams to dust
[04:19.105]This is what we call love love love...tough love
[04:23.221]Tough love