Chicken With Head Cut Off

The Magnetic Fields · 69 Love Songs Pt. 1 [1999]

Eligible, not too stupid

Intelligiable, and cute as cupid

Knowledgeable, but not always right

Salvageable, and free for the night



Well my heart's runnin' round like a chicken with its head cut off

All around the barn yard falling in and out of love

Poor thing's blind as a bat

Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' 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 hearts runnin round like a chicken with its head cut off

All around the barn yard falling in and out of love

Poor thing's blind as a bat

Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' 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 surreal

Lets just be lovers



Well my heat's runnin' round like a chicken with it's head cut off

All around the barn yard falling in and out of love

Poor thing's blind as a bat

Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' up

Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?



It ain't pretty