Chicken Salad

10. Chicken Salad

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 ****

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 ****

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 ****

You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken ****

You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken ****