I walked for miles Oh, with my head in my hand Ooh, ooh She ripped my chest wide open Once I was a child I'm now surely a man Ooh, ooh She ripped my chest wide open She ripped my chest wide open Oh, she ripped my chest Wide open, yeah We were head over heels I was doing cartwheels No romance, no appeals Just the way my heart feels Wild and fine from New Orleans Tattoo on her thigh Of a fleur-de-lis In a little silk dress That she bought secondhand She'd do a little dance I could see her silhouette Good God I wished to knock that out Rattle the walls In that shotgun little house Good lord, how we used to party hard Half-dead flying home from Mardi Gras The shit we did We should have been arrested Shit, I fell for her Well, i should have guessed it Should have known then That no one can tame that Fire on the Bayou No way to contain that Would've exchanged vows Church with stained glass Now I'm passed out Laid across the train tracks I waked for miles Oh, with my head in my hands Ooh, ooh She ripped my chest wide open Once was a child I'm now surely a man Ooh, ooh She ripped my chest wide open She ripped my chest wide open Oh, she ripped my chest Wide open, yeah Ooh, she ripped my chest Wide open, yeah Ooh, ooh She ripped my chest wide open Yeah, yeah