spotifydown.com - Tough Love (The Villains Lair)

[00:11.37] Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed

[00:13.84] I must find the way to power through a noble brow

[00:16.81] I married once for love, then my sences came

[00:19.72] I must marry for the stature of my husband's name

[00:22.67] Onto marriage number two, I knew what I had to do

[00:25.08] And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two

[00:28.01] Solved problem number one, now to problem number two

[00:31.20] His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view

[00:33.87] Would I ship her off to school? No! I told her if she stayed

[00:36.78] That she'd have to earn her keep and so she became the maid

[00:39.45] She was lazy

[00:40.23] She was crazy

[00:41.04] She was talking to the mice

[00:42.38] She was hopelessly naive, so she had to pay the price

[00:45.04] I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind

[00:47.98] I could have thrown her out, but I'm benevolent and kind

[00:50.90] Mother, your heart's too big for you

[00:56.52] I knew what I had to do

[01:01.30] After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature

[01:05.82] So you lock them up from away the key

[01:09.28] There's one on every family tree

[01:11.94] Ungrateful

[01:12.78] Hateful

[01:13.62] Vile too, the things she put you through

[01:17.60] Break their spirit so they obey

[01:20.55] Now they'll do anything you say

[01:23.21] Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love

[01:28.27] Tough love

[01:30.16] I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?

[01:33.86] Oh no, they're so cute when they're little but

[01:36.54] Then they grow up and just ruin everything

[01:40.25] I never wanted children, life was better on my own

[01:42.91] All the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone

[01:45.82] But then one day I came across a flower growing free

[01:48.75] It's magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me

[01:51.68] But someone dug it up, now a baby held the power

[01:54.35] So I borrowed her, locked her up and hid her in a tower

[01:57.27] Years went by, oh, the sacrifice

[01:59.92] And against my better judgment, I fed her once or twice

[02:03.11] Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young

[02:05.50] But that's messy

[02:06.56] Manipulation's easily more fun

[02:08.42] A little guilt, a lot of force of course you have to lie

[02:11.35] Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die

[02:14.26] They only have themselves to blame

[02:19.86] If you'd been there, you'd do the same

[02:25.18] So work them hard till they fall in line

[02:28.37] There's one way and it's only mine

[02:31.28] The children are lazy

[02:32.63] Spoiled too

[02:33.96] But we know what to do

[02:36.88] Govern them with a heart of stone

[02:39.80] Lock them up, so they're all alone

[02:42.45] Maybe you'd call it cruel but

[02:45.38] Others would call it love, tough love

[02:49.11] Ugh, her own tower with a water view and

[02:51.51] She runs away, the first change she gets

[02:54.69] These wretched brats think the

[02:56.28] World owes them something, but it doesn't

[02:59.24] Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand

[03:02.17] But there was more, I had in mind a greater plan

[03:05.10] I never cared to share, so the king would have to fall

[03:07.75] But his child blocked the way to me and fairest of them all

[03:10.67] She was chubby, she was dumb

[03:11.92] And grotesquelly optimistic

[03:13.78] She need structure in her life

[03:14.85] She wasn't realistic

[03:16.47] I give her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy

[03:19.13] But then I cought her singing songs with birds and then a boy

[03:22.07] Love? Was I just sit by and wait?

[03:25.02] For her to take my crown? No

[03:26.35] She had sealed her fate

[03:27.68] She had to go, and so she did and you know what

[03:30.33] They say, an apple once a day keeps your enemies away

[03:33.26] Don't be fooled by their tender smile

[03:39.09] Give an inch and they'll run a mile

[03:47.40] Our idea for a happy home

[03:50.34] Is one where we live all alone

[03:52.99] Dark

[03:53.78] Depressing

[03:54.59] Desolate

[03:55.92] Now let's all drink to that

[03:58.85] Call us wicked call us mean

[04:01.53] Cruel and everything in between

[04:04.46] You could say it's unjust

[04:07.38] Turning their dreams to dust

[04:10.05] This is what we call love, tough love