Lyrics for A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off as interpreted by Anne Arbour

A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Lyrics
Eligible, not too stupid
Intelligible and cute as Cupid
Knowledgeable, 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?
(Whoa, 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

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?

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
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)

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thebean
04-13-2005

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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.

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pac43764
12-30-2005

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mm, my first MF song. How did I ever live without Stephin Merritt's voice?

Whoa, Nelly.

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Tack-o-Rama
01-26-2006

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So cute. I can even imagine the little headless chicken running around.

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geoffingeorgia
01-26-2008

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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.

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charito
06-21-2008

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"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.

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dolcecars
10-01-2008

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I agree with charito, a little.

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shockdelica
01-05-2009

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I still loved this track after all these years.....

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androgybunny
09-21-2009

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If this is even vaguely autobiographical, this song is not about a woman. Merritt doesn't care for the ladies that way.

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