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Chicken Salad

from The Dream by Tracie Potochnik

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lyrics

If grandma taught me one thing
From the wisdom of her years
There’s a surefire way to save some time
And dry up all your tears
You can’t turn the streetlights into stars
A field of rocks don’t make a farm
You’re better off if you can see
Things for what they are

If it don’t feel right
There’s something wrong with it
You can try for your whole life
But you’re better off to quit
When you push and shove with all your might
But you just can’t make it fit
Remember only this
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit

You came on like lightning
In the middle of July
And I gave up my heart and brain
To give you a good try
I thought that love would bring you help
Or turn you into someone else
The kind of someone I had always
Wanted for myself

If it don’t feel right
There’s something wrong with it
You can try for your whole life
But you’re better off to quit
When you push and shove with all your might
But you just can’t make it fit
Remember only this
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit

There’s nothing in this great big world
Could make you right for me
Not one more promise from your mouth
Or all the mayonnaise in Tennessee

If it don’t feel right
There’s something wrong with it
You can try for your whole life
But you’re better off to quit
When you push and shove with all your might
But you just can’t make it fit
Remember only this
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit

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from The Dream, released October 15, 2013

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Tracie Potochnik Providence, Rhode Island

Providence-based singer-songwriter Tracie Potochnik is noted for applying simple arrangements and delicately crafted narratives to songs exposing the complexity of the human condition. Tracie brings three chords, the truth, and occasionally a mandolin to her shows. She once killed a man in Reno, but not just to watch him die. Bastard had it coming. ... more

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