A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off

Of which Stephin Merritt says, "There's not that many clichés left to be used as titles of country songs. So I was jokingly scraping the bottom of the barrel" (in the 69 Love Songs booklet).

'Well my heart's running round / like a chicken with its head cut off... / The poor thing's blind as a bat / getting up, falling down, getting up'

The metaphor spawns a series of tautologies: a heart without a head, blind as a bat.

Links:

• Category: songs featuring animals.
• [Lyrics and guitar tab] from stephinsongs web site.