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Into The Great Wide Open Lyrics
Eddie waited 'til 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 chart
The 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
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open
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
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
They made a record and it went in the chart
The sky was the limit
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single"
The future was wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
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"Eddie waited 'til 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"
I just love that. They both have tatoos, obviously they're made for each other.
the music industry is a fickle monster. musicians shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.
dreams are disillusionments
"A Rebel Without a Cause" is a James Dean movie, and he was somewhat of a rebel in it.
The actual meaning is to make you question if you actually are a rebel without a clue. As in, do you just go with the flow, and don't do something for your own individuality.
Whee! Johnny Depp played Eddie in the music video because he has a story similar to Eddie's, he went out to Hollywood looking to become a musician (he once was in a band called The Kids, he currently is in the band P)
Woooo! A very sexy Johnny Depp was in the clip for this song!!
Wow. Yeah, not only is this song great... but Johnny Depp is SO HOTT!!
YEAH Johnny Depp during the time of 21 Jump street! Does anybody else LOVE that show???
Great guitar solo in the video but that version isn't the one on CD's........any idea where 1 can get the video versioin of the song on CD?
TP said in an interview once that this song was actually about Eddie Van Halen, who couldn't cut it in the music industry and ended up just being a standin for the studio musician who actually played all his parts. In concerts, they would project film footage of the studio musician's hands onto Eddie's to maintain the illusion.