eddie waited till he finished high school He went to hollywood, got a tattoo He met a girl out there with a tattoo too The future was wide open They moved into a place they both could afford He found a nightclub he could work at the door She had a guitar and she taught him some chords The sky was the limit Into the great wide open, Under them skies of blue Out in the great wide open, A rebel without a clue The papers said ed always played from the heart He got an agent and a roadie named bart They made a record and it went in the charts T he sky was the limit His leather jacket had chains that would jingle They both met movie stars, partied and mingled Their a&r man said "i don't hear a single" The future was wide open Into the great wide open, Under them skies of blue Out in the great wide open, A rebel without a clue Into the great wide open, Under them skies of blue Into the great wide open, A rebel without a clue