芷离《Tough Love》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:11.91]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed [00:14.15]I must find the way to power through a noble brow [00:17.37]I married once for love then my senses came [00:20.46]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name [00:22.66]Onto marriage number two [00:23.86]I knew what I had to do [00:25.92]And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two [00:28.75]Solved problem number one now to problem number two [00:31.70]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view [00:34.43]Would I ship her off to school [00:36.16]No I told her if she stayed that [00:37.60]She'd have to earn her keep and so she became the maid [00:40.16]She was lazy she was crazy [00:41.24]She was talking to the mice [00:42.48]She was hopelessly naive so she had to pay the price [00:44.77]I moved her to the attic out of sight [00:47.65]And out of mind [00:48.56]I could have thrown her out but I'm benevolent and kind [00:51.56]Mother your heart's too big for you [00:57.29]I knew what I had to do [01:02.28]After all difficult children will take advantage of your good nature [01:06.04]So you lock them up [01:08.27]Throw away the key [01:09.94]There's one on every family tree [01:12.12]Ungrateful [01:13.36]Hateful [01:14.15]Vile too the things she put you through [01:17.04]Break their spirit so they obey [01:21.22]Now they'll do anything you say [01:23.91]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [01:26.76]Others would call it love [01:28.95]Tough love [01:30.67]I ask you [01:31.20]Is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things [01:34.38]Oh no they're so cute when they're little [01:37.27]But then they grow up and just [01:38.91]Ruin everything [01:39.45]I never wanted children [01:41.75]Life was better on my own [01:43.82]All the screaming nagging chilled me to the bone [01:45.63]But then one day I came across a flower growing free [01:49.56]It's magic kept me young so I kept it all for me [01:52.24]Someone dug it up now a baby held the power [01:54.21]So I borrowed her and locked her up [01:56.77]And hid her in a tower [01:58.24]Years went by oh the sacrifice [01:59.97]And against my better judgment I fed her once or twice [02:03.28]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young [02:06.03]But that's messy [02:06.65]Manipulation's easily more fun [02:09.07]A little guilt a lot of force of course [02:11.55]You have to lie [02:12.43]Remind them that without you they'd shrivel up and die [02:14.80]They only have themselves to blame [02:20.48]If you'd been there you'd do the same [02:25.14]So work them hard 'til they fall in line [02:29.13]There's one way and it's only mine [02:31.80]Children are lazy [02:32.87]Spoiled too [02:33.87]We know what to do [02:36.77]Govern them with a heart of stone [02:39.55]Lock them up so they're all alone [02:42.58]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [02:45.81]Others would call it love tough love [02:49.82]Ugh her own tower with a water view [02:52.02]And she runs away the first chance she gets [02:54.68]These wretched brats think the world owes them something [02:57.58]But it doesn't [03:00.42]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand [03:02.82]But there was more I had in mind a greater plan [03:04.92]I never cared to share [03:06.89]So the king would have to fall [03:08.37]But his child blocked the way to me [03:09.88]And fairest of them all [03:11.06]She was chubby she was dumb [03:12.35]And grotesquely optimistic [03:12.96]She needed structure in her life [03:15.78]She wasn't realistic [03:16.30]I gave her chores and took away the things [03:18.64]That she'd enjoy [03:19.64]But then I caught her singing songs with birds [03:22.14]And then a boy [03:23.13]Love was I just sit by [03:24.22]And wait for her to take my crown no [03:27.28]She had sealed her fate [03:28.11]She had to go and so she did [03:29.98]And you know what they say [03:31.04]An apple once a day keeps your enemies away [03:32.93]Don't be fooled by their tender smile [03:39.51]Give an inch and they'll run a mile [03:44.44]Our idea of a happy home [03:50.82]Is one where we live all alone [03:53.68]Dark depressing desolate [03:55.26]Now let's all drink to that [03:59.24]Call us wicked and call us mean [04:02.16]Cruel and everything in between [04:04.83]You could say it's unjust [04:07.36]Turning their dreams to dust [04:10.38]This is what we call love