Biography:
Fiona Apple (Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart, born September 13, 1977) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Her albums, Tidal (1996), When the Pawn... (1999), Extraordinary Machine (2005), The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012), and Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020), have sold over five million copies worldwide.
Born in Manhattan, New York, United States, Apple made her break into the music industry when a friend
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Other songs:
- Across The Universe
- Criminal
- Every Single Night
- Extraodinary Machine
- Extraordinary Machine
- I Know
- I Walk A Little Faster
- Never Is A Promise
- Not About Love
- O'sailor
- On The Bound
- Paper Bag
- Shadowboxer
- Sleep To Dream
- A Better Version Of Me
- A Mistake
- Anything We Want
- Daredevil
- Dull Tool
- Fast As You Can
- Get Gone
- Jonathan
- Largo
- Left Alone
- Limp
- Love Ridden
- O Sailor
- Oh Well
- Pale September
- Parting Gift
- Perifery
- Periphery
- Please Please Please
- Pure Imagination
- Red Red Red
- Sallys Song
- Slow Like Honey
- Sullen Girl
- The Child Is Gone
- The First Taste
- The Way Things Are
- To Your Love
- Tymps The Sick In The Head Song
- Valentine
- Waltz Better Than Fine
- Werewolf
- Why Try To Change Me Now
- Window
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Song: Criminal
Words and Music: Fiona Apple
Moderately Slow
Chords:
Am
F7
C
Bb
Ab7
G7
Cm
Eb
Cb
Ab
Gb7
[Verse]
Am F7
Ive been a bad bad girl,
Am F7
Ive been careless with a delicate man.
Am F7
And its a sad sad world,
Am
When a girl can break a boy
F7
Just because she can.
[Pre-Chorus]
C Bb F7
Dont you tell me to deny it,
C
Ive done wrong and I want to
Bb Am
Suffer for my sins.
C Bb
Ive come to you cause I need
Ab7 G7
Guidance to be true
F7 Ab7
And I just dont know where I can begin.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
[Verse] (follows same pattern as first verse)
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 dont tell me
To deny it.
Ive got to cleanse myself.
Of all these lies till Im good
Enough for him.
Ive got a lot to lose and im
Bettin high
So Im beggin you before it ends
Just tell me where to begin.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
[Bridge]
Eb Cb
Let me know the way
Ab Cb
Before theres hell to pay.
Ab Cb Ab7
Give me room to lay the law and let me go.
Ab Cb
Ive got to make a play
Ab Cb
To make my lover stay
Eb Cb
So, what would an angel say?
Ab7
cause the devil wants to know.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
Hope this helped!! :)
Words and Music: Fiona Apple
Moderately Slow
Chords:
Am
F7
C
Bb
Ab7
G7
Cm
Eb
Cb
Ab
Gb7
[Verse]
Am F7
Ive been a bad bad girl,
Am F7
Ive been careless with a delicate man.
Am F7
And its a sad sad world,
Am
When a girl can break a boy
F7
Just because she can.
[Pre-Chorus]
C Bb F7
Dont you tell me to deny it,
C
Ive done wrong and I want to
Bb Am
Suffer for my sins.
C Bb
Ive come to you cause I need
Ab7 G7
Guidance to be true
F7 Ab7
And I just dont know where I can begin.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
[Verse] (follows same pattern as first verse)
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 dont tell me
To deny it.
Ive got to cleanse myself.
Of all these lies till Im good
Enough for him.
Ive got a lot to lose and im
Bettin high
So Im beggin you before it ends
Just tell me where to begin.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
[Bridge]
Eb Cb
Let me know the way
Ab Cb
Before theres hell to pay.
Ab Cb Ab7
Give me room to lay the law and let me go.
Ab Cb
Ive got to make a play
Ab Cb
To make my lover stay
Eb Cb
So, what would an angel say?
Ab7
cause the devil wants to know.
[Chorus]
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
F7 Cm
What I need is a good defense
F7 Cm
cause Im feelin like a criminal.
F7
And I need to be redeemed
Cm Bb
To the one I sinned against
Ab7 G7 F7
Because he was all I ever knew of love.
Hope this helped!! :)
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