Lyric of the day

In my squirrel grandpa's brain
I'll invade when I get home

Overheard playing on the radio in my local Co-Op this morning. I've no idea what the song was called, or who the artist was and, given my propensity for mis-hearing song lyrics, this may not be precisely what the songwriter wrote, or the singer sang, but it's what I heard. I could blame it on the fuzzy hearing and synapses that afflict the middle-aged, but I've always had trouble with lyrics. As a child, I thought that Marc Bolan was singing 'Millie Gnu, is it you?' when I heard T. Rex's Metal Guru, supposing that Millie Gnu must be some sort of whimsical animal character like Nellie the Elephant.

Having said that, the real lyrics to Metal Guru are almost as surreal as 'in my squirrel grandpa's brain', so maybe I did hear right. In that unlikely event, I'd cheerfully welcome the return of psychedelic bonkersness to lyric writing, after the boring predictability of the safe, X-Factor-friendly doggerel that gets so much air-play these days.