I got away clean with my fake ID
No more school or mommy for me
Stealing cars and breaking hearts
Pills and thrills and acting smart
-The Runaways, “Dead End Justice”
I was the girl in a Runaways song;
I was the girl you were told not to be,
the girl who walks out the door at sixteen,
I was the girl in the after school special,
the troubled girl,
outrageous and pretty,
heart on my sleeve
but a stone cold bitch.
I was the girl in those TV movies,
"Born Innocent", or "Sarah T.",
scornful, defiant,
I was the girl with a switchblade
and track marks,
I was the girl in a Runaways song,
the troubled girl
or the girl in trouble,
I was the girl you were told not to be,
the girl who smoked in junior high
and I am the girl in a Runaways song,
a stone cold bitch
with your heart in her teeth,
scornful,
defiant,
I am a girl who’s been nothing but trouble,
and I am the girl you told me to be.