The chicken wakes up like she does every morning

  To the sounds of her husband's screams

  Sat?in?the dark on?the eggs she is warming

  She closes?her eyes and dreams of

  Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist

  Anything but this

  I mean, she likes her life as a mother and wife

  But is that all she is?

  She stares out the window

  The very next morning, the chicken decides to

  Makе her escape, gеt a taste of freedom

  She runs out the coop that her life’s been confined to

  Suddenly sees the thing she's only dreamed of

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  Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow

  Deer graze, birds sing

  Her future is waiting, right there for the taking

  There's just one thing

  The chicken must first cross the road, the road

  A sea of trees and green and moss

  Waiting just across the road, the road

  A life of brighter days, a width of road away

  The road is gigantic, the chicken is little

  She moves ahead left-right-left, right-left-right

  All of a sudden, she stops in the middle

  Frozen in place by a pair of headlights

  It’s anyone's guess what then happened next

  But most think she died

  But I think we ought to believe that she got to

  The other side

  So that's why she did it