Chicken With It's Head Cut Off Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

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