Lyrics to
Teenage Jail

This version of Teenage Jail was released by Eagles in 1979.

Our About Eagles page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Teenage Jail from 1979 as well as all of the other lyrics from Eagles that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Eagles or about the 1970s in general.

Stare out the window,
You can’t make the time go
You don’t even know why you’re here
Wait for the weekend to go off the deep end
and make everything disappear
You’re lost in a teenage jail
So you and so vicious and so frail
where something is always for sale
You’re lost in a teenage jail.

You’re not like your mothers.
you’re not like the others
You’re not quite like anyone else,

They don’t even know you,
Got nothing to show you,
So get something good for yourself
You’re lost in a teenage jail
So young and so vicious and so frail
Where something is always for sale.
You’re lost in a teenage jail.

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Eagles?

Eagles has released many songs over the years besides Teenage Jail. Eagles released songs from 1972 to 2007 spanning across albums like The Eagles, Desperado, On The Border, One Of These Nights, Hotel California, The Long Run, Hell Freezes Over, and Long Road Out Of Eden. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Eagles.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1979 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Teenage Jail by Eagles

The lyrics for Teenage Jail are defined as the words making up the song released by Eagles in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Teenage Jail have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Eagles and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Teenage Jail by Eagles if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Teenage Jail" means the words set to the music of Teenage Jail, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eagles. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Teenage Jail and the lyrics to Teenage Jail are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eagles who came here looking just for the lyrics to Teenage Jail, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Eagles

Visit our Eagles profile for more Eagles songs, lyrics & info!

)