"I'm Going Slightly Mad" lyrics

"I'm Going Slightly Mad"

When the outside temperature rises
And the meaning is, oh, so clear
One thousand and one yellow daffodils
Begin to dance in front of you. Oh, dear

Are they trying to tell you something?
You're missing that one final screw
You're simply not in the pink, my dear
To be honest, you haven't got a clue

I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened, happened
It finally happened. Oh, oh
It finally happened
I'm slightly mad

Oh, dear!

I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm not my usual top-billing

I'm coming down with a fever
I'm really out to sea
This kettle is boiling over
I think I'm a banana tree

Oh, dear

I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened, happened
Finally happened. Uh, huh
Finally happened
I'm slightly mad

Oh, dear!

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ah-ah

I'm knitting with only one needle
Unraveling fast. It's true
I'm driving only three wheels these days
But, my dear, how about you?

I'm going slightly mad
I'm going slightly mad
It finally happened
It finally happened
Oh, yes
It finally happened
I'm slightly mad!
Just very slightly mad!
And there you have it!


Writer(s): Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon
The second single from the band's 1991 album "Innuendo".
Peter Straker made some lyrical contributions to this song but wasn't credited.
The work on this song was revealed by John Deacon in a letter printed in the Queen Fan Club magazine in spring of 1990.
These lyrics deal with the mental decline Freddie Mercury was experiencing as one of the effects of advancing AIDS.
Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury's partner, recalled in his 1994 book "Mercury and Me", "Freddie set about with Peter trying to come up with a succession of goofy lyrics, each funnier than the last. [...] the master-stroke was 'I think I'm a banana tree'. Once that came out there was no stopping Freddie and Straker: they were then in full flow. I went to bed to fall asleep listening to their laughter wafting upstairs."
The single's cover art was inspired by a Jean-Jacques Grandville illustration.
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