[ti:Tough Love] [ar:Patty-Cake] [al:The Villains Lair (Season 1)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Tough Love - Patty-Cake [00:00.94]Lyrics by:Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim [00:01.91]Composed by:Layne Stein/Anthony Wakim [00:11.76]Ever since I was a girl my own mother vowed [00:14.52]I must find the way to power through a noble brow [00:17.51]I married once for love then my sences came [00:20.28]I must marry for the stature of my husband's name [00:22.98]Onto marriage number two [00:24.55]I knew what I had to do [00:25.85]And my poor husband fell ill in a year or two [00:28.64]Solved problem number one now to problem number two [00:31.61]His doe-eyed little girl with gentle point of view [00:34.34]Would I ship her off to school [00:35.70]No I told her if she stayed that she'd have [00:37.78]To earn her keep and so she became the maid [00:39.95]She was lazy [00:40.76]She was crazy [00:41.48]She was talking to the mice [00:42.79]She was hopelessly naive so she had to pay the price [00:45.84]I moved her to the attic out of sight [00:47.67]And out of mind [00:48.69]I could have thrown her out but I'm benevolent and kind [00:51.63]Mother your heart's too big for you [00:57.28]I knew what I had to do [01:01.87]After all difficult children will take advantage of your good nature [01:06.37]So you lock them up from away the key [01:09.83]There's one on every family tree [01:12.58]Ungrateful [01:13.64]Hateful [01:14.18]Vile too the things she put you through [01:18.44]Break their spirit so they obey [01:21.19]Now they'll do anything you say [01:24.04]Maybe you'd call it cruel but others [01:27.28]Would call it love [01:29.02]Tough love [01:30.51]I ask you is it a crime to strive [01:32.71]For perfection in all things [01:34.42]Oh no they're so cute when they're little but [01:36.88]Then they grow up and just ruin everything [01:40.93]I never wanted children life was better on my own [01:43.44]All the screaming nagging chilled me to the bone [01:46.49]But then one day I came across [01:47.85]A flower growing free [01:49.33]It's magic kept me young so I kept it all for me [01:52.12]But someone dug it up now a baby [01:54.06]Held the power [01:54.83]So I borrowed her locked her up [01:56.39]And hid her in a tower [01:57.90]Years went by oh the sacrifice [02:00.60]And against my better judgment [02:01.97]I fed her once or twice [02:03.53]Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young [02:06.09]But that's messy [02:06.90]Manipulation's easily more fun [02:08.98]A little guilt a lot of force of [02:10.65]Course you have to lie [02:11.87]Remind them that without you they'd shrivel up and die [02:15.03]They only have themselves to blame [02:20.40]If you'd been there you'd do the same [02:25.99]So work them hard 'til they fall in line [02:29.01]There's one way and it's only mine [02:31.72]The children are lazy [02:33.30]Spoiled too [02:34.47]But we know what to do [02:37.50]Govern them with a heart of stone [02:40.28]Lock them up so they're all alone [02:43.03]Maybe you'd call it cruel but [02:45.78]Others would call it love tough love [02:49.49]Ugh her own tower with a water view and [02:51.96]She runs away the first change she gets [02:54.49]These wretched brats think the [02:56.38]World owes them something but it doesn't [02:59.73]Far and wide I rule the kingdom with [03:01.49]A heavy hand [03:02.75]But there was more I had in mind a greater plan [03:05.51]I never cared to share so the king would have to fall [03:08.19]But his child blocked the way to me and [03:09.91]Fairest of them all [03:10.96]She was chubby she was dumb [03:12.45]And grotesquel optimistic [03:13.81]She need structure in her life [03:15.43]She wasn't realistic [03:16.75]I give her chores and took away the [03:18.45]Things that she'd enjoy [03:19.68]But then I cought her singing songs [03:21.11]With birds and then a boy [03:22.73]Love was I just sit by and wait [03:25.33]For her to take my crown No [03:26.97]She had sealed her fate [03:28.20]She had to go and so she did and you know what [03:30.28]They say an apple once a day keeps your enemies away [03:33.90]Don't be fooled by their tender smile [03:39.66]Give an inch and they'll run a mile [03:47.94]Our idea for a happy home [03:50.72]Is one where we live all alone [03:53.83]Dark [03:54.34]Depressing [03:54.82]Desolate [03:56.47]Now let's all drink to that [03:59.35]Call us wicked call us mean [04:02.08]Cruel and everything in between [04:04.86]You could say it's unjust [04:07.85]Turning their dreams to dust [04:10.70]This is what we call love tough love