Tough Love (Remix) - PattyCake.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim
[00:19.925]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed
[00:22.121]I must find the way to power through a noble brow
[00:24.817]I married once for love, then my senses came
[00:27.322]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name
[00:29.563]Onto marriage number two
[00:30.888]I knew what I had to do
[00:32.242]And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two
[00:34.642]Solved problem number one, now to problem number two
[00:37.300]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view
[00:39.740]Would I ship her off to school?
[00:40.842]No! I told her if she stayed that she'd have
[00:42.277]To earn her keep and so she became the maid
[00:44.965]She was lazy
[00:45.629]She was crazy
[00:46.361]She was talking to the mice
[00:47.491]She was hopelessly naive, so she had to pay the price
[00:49.872]I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind
[00:52.622]I could have thrown her out, but I'm benevolent and kind
[00:56.615]But I'm benevolent and kind
[00:58.958]But I'm benevolent and kind
[01:00.200]Mother, your heart's too big for you
[01:05.342]I knew what I had to do
[01:10.404]I knew what I had to do
[01:14.725]
[01:15.637]After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature
[01:19.743]So you lock them up throw away the key
[01:22.979]There's one on every family tree
[01:25.335]Ungrateful
[01:26.200]Hateful
[01:26.845]Vile too, the things she put you through
[01:30.289]Break their spirit so they obey
[01:33.031]Now they'll do anything you say
[01:35.532]Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love
[01:40.227]Tough love
[01:41.084]
[01:41.292]I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?
[01:44.834]Oh no, they're so cute when they're little but
[01:46.901]Then they grow up and just ruin everything
[01:50.600]I never wanted children, life was better on my own
[01:53.118]All the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone
[01:55.864]But then one day I came across a flower growing free
[01:58.357]It's magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me
[02:00.832]But someone dug it up, now a baby held the power
[02:03.203]So I "borrowed" her, locked her up and hid her in a tower
[02:05.842]Years went by, Oh, the sacrifice
[02:08.248]And against my better judgment, I fed her once or twice
[02:11.002]Teenagers now I know why wild eat their young
[02:13.370]But that's messy
[02:14.120]Manipulation's easily more fun
[02:16.081]A little guilt, a lot of force of course you have to lie
[02:18.554]Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die
[02:21.117]They only have themselves to blame
[02:25.946]If you'd been there, you'd do the same
[02:32.207]
[02:41.081]So work them hard 'til they fall in line
[02:43.923]There's one way and it's only mine
[02:46.269]Children are lazy
[02:47.437]Spoiled too
[02:48.924]But we know what to do
[02:51.374]Govern them with a heart of stone
[02:53.883]Lock them up, so they're all alone
[02:56.417]Maybe you'd call it cruel but
[02:58.994]Others would call it love, tough love
[03:02.320]Ugh, her own tower with a water view and
[03:04.491]She runs away, the first chance she gets
[03:06.744]These wretched brats think the
[03:08.495]World owes them something, but it doesn't
[03:11.164]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand
[03:13.952]But there was more, I had in mind a greater plan
[03:16.634]I never cared to share, so the king would have to fall
[03:19.002]But his child blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all"
[03:21.460]She was chubby, she was dumb
[03:22.641]And grotesquely optimistic
[03:24.180]She need structure in her life
[03:25.383]She wasn't realistic
[03:26.689]I gave her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy
[03:29.275]But then I caught her singing songs with birds and then a boy
[03:32.016]Love? Was I just sit by and wait?
[03:34.342]For her to take my crown? No
[03:35.750]She had sealed her fate
[03:36.709]She had to go, and so she did and you know what
[03:38.264]They say, "An apple once a day keeps your enemies away"
[03:41.798]Don't be fooled by their tender smile
[03:46.960]Give an inch and they'll run a mile
[03:59.678]
[04:02.249]Our idea for a happy home
[04:04.511]Is one where we live all alone
[04:06.959]Dark
[04:07.849]Depressing
[04:08.653]Desolate
[04:09.783]Now let's all drink to that
[04:12.255]Call us wicked call us mean
[04:14.857]Cruel and everything in between
[04:17.207]You could say it's unjust
[04:19.654]Turning their dreams to dust
[04:22.321]This is what we call love love love...tough love
[04:32.003]Tough love