The Chicken

[00:46.88] The chicken wakes up like she does every morning

[00:52.72] To the sounds of her husband’s screams

[00:57.26] Sat in the dark on the eggs she is warming

[01:02.30] She closes her eyes and dreams of

[01:06.84] Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist

[01:11.89] Anything but this

[01:17.46] I mean, she likes her life as a mother and wife

[01:22.25] But is that all she is?

[01:28.90] She stares out the window

[01:35.28] The very next morning, the chicken decides to

[01:40.86] Make her escape, get a taste of freedom

[01:45.92] She runs out the coop that her life’s been confined to

[01:50.71] Suddenly sees the thing she’s only dreamed of

[01:55.49] Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow

[02:01.06] Deer graze, birds sing

[02:06.66] Her future is waiting, right there for the taking

[02:12.23] There’s just one thing

[02:18.07] The chicken must first cross the road

[02:28.17] The road

[02:32.69] A sea of trees and green and moss

[02:36.17] Waiting just across the road, the road

[02:45.21] A life of brighter days, a width of road away

[02:52.66] The road is gigantic, the chicken is little

[02:57.99] She moves ahead left-right-left, right-left-right

[03:05.42] All of a sudden, she stops in the middle

[03:09.15] Frozen in place by a pair of headlights

[03:14.44] It’s anyone’s guess what then happened next

[03:18.96] But most think she died

[03:26.67] But I think we ought to believe that she got to

[03:31.99] The other side

[03:38.36] So that’s why she did it

[03:47.39] Goodbye