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   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 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 that's what I'm gonna be      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