I've been a bad bad girl
I've been careless with my delicate man
And its 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 want to
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 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 till 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 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 redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love


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    I once know one "delicate " man. He was so sweet and kind to me, and said that he loved everything about me, that I am differant for him. But I rejected his love... Why? I do not know exatcly. I just felt that I don't love him that much. He was one of best friends of mine, I trusted him alot. But he started to make dirty games and said that I am just too lonely, ambitious and don't know anything about love and relationships. That I am just too broke and I need to open my soul for love. After a week he slept with his new girlfriend, he tell me everything about his feelings about this girl. You see, I felt like a criminal. Many girls could only dream about this guy. He was so sensitive, delicate, understanding. All of my friends were against me. All of collage rumored about me that I secretly adore him and that I'm just too shy. Everybody said that I love him but just don't understanding that. He kissed his girlfriend in front of me, and tell me how expensive gifts he bought her.

    And I was alone. I couldn't feel anything only disappointment about myself. I couldn't love him and couldn't love myself. I felt guilty about what I've done. I started to hate him, because of his two-faced behavior. He smiled in my eyes, but he told me that I will be unhappy and lonely un my life, that I cannot study medicine.

    After 5 months I have heard that he have called me crazy bit**, that I just need to be f***ed hardly because I just need a man, in front of other guys who loved me. Everything was a lie. He was just a A-hole.

    So I exactly understand what Fiona sang in this song - woman always will be guilty one. She can sleep with other guys or reject one delicate man- it doesn't matter. She is always the slut. She just wants to be herself, but society makes her think that it can't be correct. She have to kill these evil deeds because she is nothing without her man. Everyone will call her stupid slut, that she is heartless and without soul. Even when she's the victim.

    almazzaon October 23, 2015   Link

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