Eligible, not too stupid
Intelligable and cute as Cupid
Knowledgable but not always right
Salvageable and free for the night
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
Poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
Woah, nelly!
My wife doesn't understand me
Many dozens hope to land me
I'm for free love and I'm in free fall
This could be love or nothing at all
But my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
We don't have to be stars exploding in the night, or electric eels under the covers
We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
It ain't pretty
Intelligable and cute as Cupid
Knowledgable but not always right
Salvageable and free for the night
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
Poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
Woah, nelly!
My wife doesn't understand me
Many dozens hope to land me
I'm for free love and I'm in free fall
This could be love or nothing at all
But my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
We don't have to be stars exploding in the night, or electric eels under the covers
We don't have to be anything quite so unreal, let's just be lovers
Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barnyard, falling in and out of love
The poor thing's blind as a bat, getting up, falling down, getting up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?
It ain't pretty
Lyrics submitted by Anne Arbour
A Chicken with It's Head Cut Off Lyrics as written by Stephin Raymond Merritt
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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mm, my first MF song. How did I ever live without Stephin Merritt's voice?
Whoa, Nelly.
I think it's almost the opposite. It's about a guy who's been so brutalized by careless loves before hat he doesn't know up from down, but he's trying to convince someone to come home with him and making his predicament well known. So that there's no confusion later on.
"We don't have to be stars exploding in the night Or electric eels under the covers We don't have to be anything quite so unreal Let's just be lovers"
he's saying he's done with idealizing love and lovemaking. maybe he's falling in love with her, maybe not, but right now he just wants to take her to bed and not have to think about it.
Great Song
It's about a guy who really likes a new a girl and doesn't know what to make of his new feelings for her. His thoughts are everywhere and doesn't know what to make of it. In the end he realizes that he doesn't care about anything and just wants to be with her.
most likely not about a guy who likes a girl
So cute. I can even imagine the little headless chicken running around.
I agree with charito, a little.
I still loved this track after all these years.....
If this is even vaguely autobiographical, this song is not about a woman. Merritt doesn't care for the ladies that way.
I thought the lines:
"We don't have to be stars exploding in the night Or electric eels under the covers We don't have to be anything quite so unreal Let's just be lovers"
were more about how he doesnt want to make any grand romantic gestures or shows: "stars exploding in the night" or to have an amazing sex life: "electrc eels under the covers" he just wants someone to love: "Let's just be lovers"
I kind of interpreted <br /> "We don't have to be stars exploding in the night<br /> Or electric eels under the covers<br /> We don't have to be anything quite so unreal<br /> Let's just be lovers"<br /> as a realistic view of what the narrator thinks "love" is, that things didn't have to be over-romanticized, it could just be a simple, but very apparent and a very real relationship. <br /> But this may just be me being biased and trying to make this song more romantic in my head, as I oftentimes do. :)
I was all, "Hmm, I'm gonna go on songmeanings and see if I can't find some lyrics that describe where I'm at in life right now," because that is the sort of thing I do to comfort myself when shit gets a bit too real. This was the first song I clicked, never having heard/read the lyrics, and holy shit this is IT. Every line epitomizes my life. Thanks Stephen Merritt, I am slowly but surely realizing your brilliance.