The 1975 song Glenn Frey knew the Eagles needed to make: “Always been there”Glenn Frey didn’t have some kind of gift for songwriting when he first started out. And while Frey did have a few moments where Eagles songs weren’t coming together, he knew that some songs were floating in the air waiting to be written. He needed to put real time and thought into what he was singing, but it all comes back to people writing about what they knew about every time they sang. The band already needed to take a step back from that kind of writing, so the next few albums were more about standalone stories. They liked the idea of pushing forward on every record, and even for a straightforward ballad, ‘Lyin’ Eyes’ was the kind of song that Frey captured without needing to think about it.