Well, there's slim times when my words won't rhyme
And the hills I face
Are a long hard climb
I just sit cross-legged with my old guitar
Ooh, it kinda makes me feel
Like a rock'n'roll star
Well, it makes me laugh
Lord, it makes me cry
And I think, for once
Let me just get high
Let me get electric, put a silk suit on
Turn my old guitar
Into a tommy gun
And root-toot-shoot myself to fame
Every kid alive gonna know my name
An overnight phenomenon like there's never been
A motivated supersonic king of the scene
I'll be a teenage idol
Just give me a break
I'm gonna be a teenage idol
No matter how long it takes
You can't imagine
What it means to me
I'm gonna grab myself a place in history
A teenage idol, ooh
That's what I'm gonna be
Oh, yeah
Well, life is short and the world is rough
And if you're gonna boogie
Boy, you got to be tough
Nobody knows if I'm dead or alive
I just drink myself to sleep each night
And so I pray to the teenage god of rock
If I make it big
Let me stay on top
You gotta cut me loose
From this one-room dive
Put me on the ladder
Keep this boy alive
And root-toot-shoot myself to fame
Every kid alive gonna know my name
An overnight phenomenon like there's never been
A motivated supersonic king of the scene
I'll be a teenage idol
Just give me a break
I'm gonna be a teenage idol
No matter how long it takes
You can't imagine what it means to me
I'm gonna grab myself a place in history
A teenage idol
Ha, yeah, ooh
That's what I'm gonna be