Fiona Apple - Criminal Lyrics

Fiona Apple - Criminal Video

I've been a bad, bad girl

I've been careless with a delicate man

And it's a sad, sad world

When a girl will break a boy

Just because she can

 

Don't you tell me to deny it

I've done wrong and I wanna suffer for my sins

I've come to you cause I need guidance to be true

And I just don't know where I can begin

 

What I need is a good defense

Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

 

Heaven help me for the way I am

Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done

I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand

But I keep livin' this day

Like the next will never come

 

Oh help me, but don't tell me to deny it

I've got to cleanse myself

Of all these lies til I'm good enough for him

I've got a lot to lose

And I'm bettin' high so I'm beggin' you

Before it ends

Just tell me where to begin

 

What I need is a good defense

Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

 

Let me know the way

Before there's hell to pay

Give me room to lay the law and let me go

I've got to make a play

To make my lover stay

So what would an angel say

The devil wants to know

 

What I need is a good defense

Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love