In Nicholas Stoller’s two comedy films Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) and Get Him to the Greek (2010), the English actor Russell Brand plays the role of Aldous Snow, an English rock star, lead singer of a group called Infant Sorrow. According to Genius, Russell Brand did all the vocals and most of the vocal arrangements for the various songs found in the movies, and the soundtrack for both movies also credits Brand as a writer. The role of the other musicians of the band seems to have been played professional musicians, but not those performing in the soundtracks.

The soundtrack of Get Him to the Greek was released as a CD in June 2010. Its 12th track, a song titled “Little Bird,” evokes in a poetic language a love affair with an underage girl who looks ‘a bit too young.’ Unless she is aged at least eighteen (or, as says the song, ‘born before ninety-two’), she will remain ‘the stars in my eyes.’

Here is a YouTube video of the song, which includes the lyrics (written by Mike Viola):

These lyrics are also found in Genius. I give them here, adapted from both sources:

Little Bird

Little bird
Drink the champagne from my lips
Take a flying saucer trip
To the stars in my eyes

Little bird
Sitting on the tip of my tongue
Though you look a bit too young
Could be the stars in my eyes

Your words, like butterflies, dance around my head
Your body, like forbidden wine, spills out of my bed

Hope your daddy doesn’t mind
Hope your mommy doesn’t mind
Hope your granny doesn’t mind
Hope your grandpa doesn’t mind

Little bird
You have got to be eighteen
Or a few years past your teens
Or you are in my eyes

Little bird
If you are born before ninety-two
Then you know just what to do
Rip the stars from my eyes

Your words, like butterflies, dance around my head
Your body, like a cherry pie, spills out of my bed

Hope your daddy doesn’t mind
Hope your mommy doesn’t mind
Hope your nana doesn’t mind
Hope your grandpa doesn’t mind

Little bird
Brand new galaxies await you
Open up and let me take you
To the stars

Your words, like butterflies, dance around my head
Your body, like forbidden wine, spills out of my bed

Hope your daddy doesn’t mind
Hope your mommy doesn’t mind
Hope your granny doesn’t mind
Hope your grandpa doesn’t mind

Hope your daddy doesn’t mind
Hope your mommy doesn’t mind
Hope your daddy doesn’t mind
Hope your mommy doesn’t mind

Little bird
Little bird
Little bird

Note that “Infant Sorrow” is the title of a poem by William Blake in Songs of Experience (1794), lamenting the woes of a baby born in a cruel world.