Idol

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 kind of makes me feel like a rock and 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 atomic 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 cannot imagine what it means to me

I'm gonna grab myself a place in history

A teenage idol, o!

That's what I'm gonna be, o 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 got to 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 a history

A teenage idol, oh, eh, ooh

That's what I'm gonna be