Know Your Chicken

Chicken is pussy.

This song is about oral sex.

You've got to know your chicken. "Spare the rod (dick) and spoil the chick" could be a reference to making sure you spoil that pussy with some oral before you think about applying the "cock" (no pun intended).

But then, I'm orally fixated so maybe all songs are about cunnilingus to me. ;-D

No one knows what this song means.

Uh... yeah, it's a weird song, at first I thought maybe it was about abortion of adopting away a baby. "Something was cooking, but wasn't yet a chicken." Like she's pregnant, but it's not yet a baby it's just a fetus? Then, um, one went away (abortion, adoption, death? I dunno) Then her lover... makes dinner out of the dead baby... >_> uh ok no, I don't know haha, this song is mad weird. Magenta and blue might mean girl and boy? O.o OH! Maybe, she gave one away for adoption, then she met a "lover" who had one and it could be the one she gave away for adoption earlier?! I'm gonna shut up now.

Maybe you are right Cyrene, about the chicken thing meaning boy and girl or male and female. And it's like a metaphor for which 'colour' or which 'chicken' she prefers, as she learnt later on...? lol Or...who knows?

i think they said something about getting drunk and writing it. so yeah,possibly no meaning. that's not a bad interpretation i suppose,if it's possible to give it a serious meaning

this is all about knowing your chicken

Not everything is about drugs, however easy it is to think so.

It's very possible that this was just a drunken scribble-fest, but there is a distinct storyline to me... about a person growing up and learning responsibility by having pets.

The story starts with the singer buying two baby chicks on the street... One was male (blue), and one was female (magenta).

The rooster ran away or died, but the chicken grew to adulthood (and probably was nice and fat). She (the chicken) was noisy and would bite the singer all the time.

The singer eventually met a lover who was a butcher's daughter and cooked the chicken for them one night. The chicken was delicious, and was missed (inferred by the fact that the owner asked where the lover got the chicken).

The chorus seems to talk about how the singer got to know the chicken before it was eaten, something that not many people experience.

As a result of raising the chick to a chicken, the singer learned about responsibility, discipline, and caring for another living creature ("spare the rod, spoil the chick"... maybe the chicken used to bite because it was spared discipline? there's also possibly a dual-meaning of sparing the chicken's life and letting the source of meat spoil?)... The "before you shit a brick" part is probably referring to listeners' reactions to eating the pet chicken, and ties into what the singer is learning about life (it's just a chicken... better to eat it than let it grow old and go to waste).

The singer concludes the story by saying the lover went off to learn about anatomy (maybe to become a doctor?), and the singer followed the lovers' father's trade, becoming a butcher. The singer and the lover have two children (one boy and one girl) and the singer will probably apply the responsibility and maturity they learned through raising a pet to raising their kids.

^^Everwiser nailed it. That's exactly what I thought this song was about when I was a kid! SO I figured I had a very dirty mind, or it was painfully obvious. The whole bridge about "When I met a lover, she made me dinner..." gives it all away. Lickin finger, indeed.

the thing im most trying to figure out is why miho is speaking from the mans point of view in the song. why she didnt say one day HE made me dinner and HE went to collegue studied anatomy. but ive noticed miho likes to speak more about females in her song writing. perhaps she does know her chickens a bit better we thought