The Walking Dead fans driven stir-crazy after song Easy Street gets stuck in their head

THE WALKING DEAD fans may be used to blood and guts on screen - but they weren't counting on songs getting stuck in their head.

Viewers of the zombie bloodbath show found themselves humming along to the ridiculously catchy Easy Street as they discovered the fate of Daryl - after he was taken away in the grisly first episode of the series.

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The last we saw of the crossbow-wielding survivor, played by Norman Reedus, was when he punched the crazed Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) after witnessing his friend Abraham get beaten to death with barbed-wire bat Lucille - inadvertently causing the death of Glenn in the process.

Since then, we find out that he has been locked up as a prisoner while the team at The Sanctuary feed him dog food sandwiches and generally make his life a living hell.

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The worst thing of all? The song he is forced to hear repeatedly- Easy Street by The Collapsable Hearts Club (sic).

You can listen to the ditty yourself here:

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After only one listen of the song, viewers were hooked, and took to Twitter in their droves in a bid to find like-minded souls who are as haunted by the eerily upbeat cheer as they were.

One wrote: "Half the UK right now have easy street playing over and over in their heads #walkingdead"

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Another seemed to be taking tips from Negan and wrote: "started blasting easy street in the other room to torture wife"

Someone else's other half clearly wasn't as amused and said: "Well, my girlfriend's already annoyed with me singing the Easy Street song and it's only been 30 minutes #TheWalkingDead" 

Jim Bianco, who wrote the unbearable ditty, has said he was thrilled to hear his song used in the episode, even if it wasn’t exactly for a positive reason.

He told : “Exactly how the song got into their hands is a mystery to me. But when they heard it, the show reached out and asked to use it.

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“I didn’t really understand why a show like The Walking Dead would want to use such an upbeat over-the-top, in your face “happy” song but now I understand – to torture someone, of course.”

Catch The Walking Dead, Monday nights on FOXTV. 

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