Shreds and Patches

© 2014 Robert Morris Black / Leprechaun Club Music (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved.

Breath like anise and blood like espresso

You take a pound of flesh with your moonshot braggadocio

I call you Ophelia and you call me your Romeo

The nearest thing this warm and wet must be the Gulf of Mexico

Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up

Rip it up to Shreds and Patches

Tear me down, tear me down, tear me down, tear me down

Tear me down every time you bat your lashes

Caresses like splinters and muscles like latches

You’re gonna trip me up

And rip me up to Shreds and Patches

In like Flynn, I’m trying to be so hep

I’ve gone from sublime to silly in a single step

I’m clutching at straws and I’m hoping they don’t break

Make it a double and I’ll take a powder, you take the cake

Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up…..

I stole a look and you called it grand larceny

You threw your hook and it felt like assault and battery

We caught desire by the tail on the world’s wickedest mile

And now I’m bit between the teeth of your Cheshire smile

Full tilt, lover’s lilt, one more temptation

You know you do to me what the government’s doing to this nation

My kingdom for a charley horse, if I could have such luck

I’ll break out this Roman candle and wait for a bit of your nip and tuck

Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up…..

In fashion crime and passion, senseless sensibility

Your bolting-hutch of beastliness just made a mess of me

You brought me to a boil and ironed out my creases

Then threw me to the lions and they tore me up to scraps and pieces

Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up…..

You turned my head when I turned my back

And now I’m turning the tables just like ballin’ the jack

I may be bruised from the battle and battered from the brawl

But I ain’t cashed in my chips yet and I’m learning to crawl

I’m gonna

Rip you up, rip you up, rip you up, rip you up

Rip you up to Shreds and Patches

Tear you down, tear you down, tear you down, tear you down

Tear you down every time you bat your lashes

I’m coming at you, you better batten down your hatches

‘Cause I’m gonna trip you up

And rip you up to Shreds and Patches