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'Chicken' by Pixies is a 2024 alternative song from the album 'The Night the Zombies Came'. The lyrics cast the narrator as a frantic creature, “pecking” through trees before a sudden threat becomes a desperate, plea-driven struggle. There is a recurring sense of panic and helplessness, followed by a circular, trapped motion, as the voice insists it is begging while also refusing a position of surrender. The writing plays with vivid extremity, turning fear and pleading into a spiralling, almost manic address.
"Chicken" is a single by Pixies, from the album The Night the Zombies Came, released 24th October 2024. The track is 4:23 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Pixies.
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Sometimes I feel like a chicken Pecking my way through the trees When something aloft cuts my head right off Now I'm dealing with decapitation I'm begging you Begging you, please Begging you, please I'm not down on my knees Oh no I'm just running around in circles And other times I feel as I'm An actor of zombie movies Searching for you in town after town A lover who ain't gonna kill me I'm begging you, please Begging you, please I'm not down on my knees I'm not down on my knees Oh no, no, no I'm just running around in circles
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Sadly, it is another hit-and-miss affair.
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