The City (Firecracker)

I've walked all around the city
 All the places you and I went
 This is not bittersweet
 It is thoroughly tainted
 I could try to reclaim it
 For me and future loves
 But my mechanism's broken
 I'll never clean enough
 I am a firecracker disguised as a girl
 I am self-hating predator
 Yet for every song of Trouble that I sing
 There is new prey waiting in the wings
 You know I'd choose death if it weren't so permanent
 I've never been good at commitment
 I could run away but I'd never escape
 My id, my need, this waste
 I walk all around the city
 To survey the damage I have done
 Broken hearts on every street corner
 And yours is the loudest one
 Still I'll stay here in the city
 If just to assert my right
 I won't give up these willing victims
 Not without a fight
 I am a firecracker disguised as a girl
 I am self-hating predator
 Yet for every song of Trouble that I sing
 There is new prey waiting in the wings
 You know I'd choose death if it weren't so permanent
 I've never been good at commitment
 I could run away but I'd never escape
 My id, my need, this waste