Tough Love (Remix)

Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed

I must find the way to power through a noble brow

I married once for love, then my senses came

I must marry for the stature of my husband's name

Onto marriage number two

I knew what I had to do

And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two

Solved problem number one, now to problem number two

His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view

Would I ship her off to school?

No! I told her if she stayed that she'd have

To earn her keep and so she became the maid

She was lazy

She was crazy

She was talking to the mice

She was hopelessly naive, so she had to pay the price

I moved her to the attic out of sight and out of mind

I could have thrown her out, but I'm benevolent and kind

But I'm benevolent and kind

But I'm benevolent and kind

Mother, your heart's too big for you

I knew what I had to do

I knew what I had to do

After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature

So you lock them up throw away the key

There's one on every family tree

Ungrateful

Hateful

Vile too, the things she put you through

Break their spirit so they obey

Now they'll do anything you say

Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love

Tough love

I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?

Oh no, they're so cute when they're little but

Then they grow up and just ruin everything

I never wanted children, life was better on my own

All the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone

But then one day I came across a flower growing free

It's magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me

But someone dug it up, now a baby held the power

So I "borrowed" her, locked her up and hid her in a tower

Years went by, Oh, the sacrifice

And against my better judgment, I fed her once or twice

Teenagers now I know why wild eat their young

But that's messy

Manipulation's easily more fun

A little guilt, a lot of force of course you have to lie

Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die

They only have themselves to blame

If you'd been there, you'd do the same

So work them hard 'til they fall in line

There's one way and it's only mine

Children are lazy

Spoiled too

But we know what to do

Govern them with a heart of stone

Lock them up, so they're all alone

Maybe you'd call it cruel but

Others would call it love, tough love

Ugh, her own tower with a water view and

She runs away, the first change she gets

These wretched brats think the

World owes them something, but it doesn't

Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand

But there was more, I had in mind a greater plan

I never cared to share, so the king would have to fall

But his child blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all"

She was chubby, she was dumb

And grotesquely optimistic

She need structure in her life

She wasn't realistic

I give her chores and took away the things that she'd enjoy

But then I cought her singing songs with birds and then a boy

Love? Was I just sit by and wait?

For her to take my crown? No

She had sealed her fate

She had to go, and so she did and you know what

They say, "An apple once a day keeps your enemies away"

Don't be fooled by their tender smile

Give an inch and they'll run a mile

Our idea for a happy home

Is one where we live all alone

Dark

Depressing

Desolate

Now let's all drink to that

Call us wicked call us mean

Cruel and everything in between

You could say it's unjust

Turning their dreams to dust

This is what we call love love love...tough love

Tough love