Tough Love

[Lady Tremain]

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 sences 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

[Drizella and Anastasia]

She was lazy

She was crazy

She was talking to the mice

[Lady Tremain]

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

[Drizella and Anastasia]

Mother, your heart's too big for you

[Lady Tremain]

I knew what I had to do

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

So you lock them up from away the key

There's one on every family tree

[Drizella and Anastasia]

Ungrateful

Hateful

Vile too, the things she put you through

[Lady Tremain]

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?

[Mother Gothel]

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 I 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 till they fall in line

There's one way and it's only mine

[Evil Queen]

The children are lazy

[Lady Tremain]

Spoiled too

[All]

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

[Mother Gothel]

Ugh, her own tower with a water view and

She runs away, the first change she gets

[Evil Queen]

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 grotesquelly 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

[All]

Give an inch and they'll run a mile

Our idea for a happy home

Is one where we live all alone

[Mother Gothel]

Dark

[Lady Tremain]

Depressing

[Evil Queen]

Desolate

[All]

Now let's all drink to that

[Drizella and Anastasia]

Call us wicked call us mean

Lady Tremain

Cruel and everything in between

[Mother Gothel]

You could say it's unjust

[Evil Queen]

Turning their dreams to dust

[All]

This is what we call love, tough love