Songs
Chicken Song
Description
"Chicken Song" is a song originally composed, performed, and demoed by Regina Spektor. One of Regina's earliest songs, its existence was not known until the release of the 1999 Demo Tape in 2007. The song was never professionally recorded or released and has no known live performances.
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Lyrics
Stop jerkin' off, and eat your chicken, baby
It's like a colony of hungry ants down here
So I keep dancing with this dead weight round my ankles
And it thickens every time I turn away
There's something spartan in the way we choose our battles
There's something spartan in the way we cast our stones
It takes a bit more than a kiss for the princess to awaken
And a bit less than a fuck for her to stay awake
So don't go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely as I look outside my window, it's...
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another joke, another beer
And I'm sleeping through
Stop jerkin' off, and eat your chicken, baby
It's a free country
We can be elitist if we want
They say if we phrase it right
They'll eat it off our fingers
And if we don't, well, then they won't
The astrologers look at a sky and point their fingers
And the philosphers look down at us and point their toes
Is it the way we close our eyes?
Is it our hair?
Is it the breathmints?
You know we speculate
But in the end do we really know?
[Chorus]
So don't go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely as I look outside my window, it's...
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another joke, another beer
And I'm sleeping through
Stop, stop, stop, stop...
Stop jerkin' off, and eat your chicken baby
It's like a colony of hungry ants down here
So I keep dancing with this dead weight round my ankles
And it thickens every time I turn away
There's something spartan in the way we choose our battles
There's something spartan in the way we cast our stones
It takes a bit more than a kiss for the princess to awaken
And a bit less than a fuck for her to stay awake
So don't go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely as I look outside my window, it's...
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another joke, another beer
And I'm sleeping through
Don't go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely, man
I just wanna see something lovely
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another day, another year
Another day, another year
Another year, another year
Another day
And I'm sleeping
I'm sleeping
I'm slipping through my fingers
Song Facts
Release Status:
Unreleased
Originally By:
Original
Collaborators:
Solo
Alternate Titles:
N/A
Written:
Unknown
Demo:
First Official Release:
N/A
First Live Performance:
N/A
Last Live Performance:
N/A
Song Stats
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Last Known Date:
Time Between First Known Date and Last Known Date:
Time Between First and Last Performance:
never played live
# of Appearances on Official Releases:
0
# of Times Performed Live:
0
Themes & References
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