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