Fiona Apple - Criminal (lyrics)

First of all this song is something else. It's a prayer.It signifies a criminal's character. "Fiona Apple" created this character with her lyrics to show a realization of the bad life living from a relationship.

"I've been a bad bad girl
I've been a careless "

She admits her wrong doing. and pray's to find a redeemer. According to wikipedia, Apple described the song as a description of

"feeling bad for getting something so easily by using your sexuality" .

The jazz and slow piano rock style of this music made it way and won the Grammy Award for the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards and was also nominated for Best Rock Song. Fiona's vocal contralto style contains powerful elements of jazz and alternative rock.

And even though she released this track back in 1997, what does her present life got to do with the title "criminal" and whether it is relevant to her recent arrest on september 19,2012 Texas for pessession of hashish.
Authorities claimed they found on her tour bus.She was detained at the Hudspeth County Jail.

The question is, was she really singing about her lifestyle. And if it's her lifestyle ,what is the shatta lyric in it.
Is it a realization of a criminal who foresaw her bad lifestyle , and emotionally exhibited her creativity with it or is it a mere imagination from a talented artist.
One truth seems to unravel. several years after releasing,finally a manifestation of "criminal" music has played in her life.

Was this song really telling the truth.The truth shall always set you free.But is she free. Big up for Fiona.

Shattalyrics.

Lyrics

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 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