As it turns out, he liked it so much that he took it for his own when recording a pair of hits for Cheap Trick later in the decade. Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen wrote the tune as a "rock nursery rhyme" about his own youthful perception of his parents' "weirdness.” The song made the perfect opener for Heaven Tonight, an album of power-pop tunes made with radio-friendly production that positioned Cheap Trick as a group ready for arenas. “I just loved what we did with ‘Surrender,’” Werman says. By then, Werman and Cheap Trick were ready to release Dream Police, the group’s fourth studio album.