A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off

The Magnetic Fields * Track #4 On 69 Love Songs

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Album 69 Love Songs

ALBUM

The Magnetic Fields

1999

A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off by The Magnetic Fields

Release Date

Tue Sep 07 1999

Performed by

The Magnetic Fields

Produced by

Stephin Merritt

Writed by

Stephin Merritt

About

Track 4 in the first volume of 69 Love Songs features Stephin Merritt and the band playing a subtle country ditty about a man with a wandering heart.

Illustration by Tom Humberstone

A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Eligible, not too stupid
Intelligible and cute as Cupid
Knowledgeable, but not always right
Salvageable and free for the night

[Chorus]
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?
Whoa, Nellie

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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?

[Bridge]
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

[Chorus]
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

A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off Q&A

Who wrote A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off's ?

A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off was written by Stephin Merritt.

Who produced A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off's ?

A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off was produced by Stephin Merritt.

When did The Magnetic Fields release A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off?

The Magnetic Fields released A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off on Tue Sep 07 1999.

What did The Magnetic Fields say about "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off"?

In the 69 Love Songs release interview with Daniel Handler, Stephin Merritt said:

There’s not all that many clichés left to be used as titles of country songs. So I was jokingly scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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