- Joined
- May 4, 2001
- Messages
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It's A Sorry World. By Tim Wilson.
You can go to war when you're eighteen
but you can't buy a beer
You can launch missles from a submarine
but you can't buy a pistol here
You can breathe chemical weapons fumes
but they don't want you to smoke
So when you're shooting up a bar in Bagdad
don't order a rum and coke
You can have sex when you're seventeen
you just can't have the cigarette
You ain't old enough for a slot machine
or to lay down a football bet
But they'll take you at the clinic if you're fifteen
and your folks don't have to know
You can take penicillin just don't watch people
getting naked on video
You can be a Governor at twenty-one
or the President at thirty-five
You can be the Senator of South Carolina
if you can just stay alive
They'll throw you in with sharks when you're twelve years old
to teach you to scubba dive
and if you're ninety-four and can't see anymore
they'll still let you drive
Just don't get caught with a beer in your hand
if you just turned eighteen
they don't mind you owning an acetelene torch
and a gallon of gasoline
just don't buy smokes at the liquor store
or you'll both go to jail
but they'll sell you the rope so you can hang yourself
while you're listening to 'Nine Inch Nails'
It's a sorry world
It's a so-rry world
It's a sorry world when you can raise young'uns
but you can't smoke a Marlboro
It's a sorry world
It's a so-rry world
It's a sorry world when you're seventeen
and you can't call a call girl
(any mispelled words are my fault, sorry.)
You can go to war when you're eighteen
but you can't buy a beer
You can launch missles from a submarine
but you can't buy a pistol here
You can breathe chemical weapons fumes
but they don't want you to smoke
So when you're shooting up a bar in Bagdad
don't order a rum and coke
You can have sex when you're seventeen
you just can't have the cigarette
You ain't old enough for a slot machine
or to lay down a football bet
But they'll take you at the clinic if you're fifteen
and your folks don't have to know
You can take penicillin just don't watch people
getting naked on video
You can be a Governor at twenty-one
or the President at thirty-five
You can be the Senator of South Carolina
if you can just stay alive
They'll throw you in with sharks when you're twelve years old
to teach you to scubba dive
and if you're ninety-four and can't see anymore
they'll still let you drive
Just don't get caught with a beer in your hand
if you just turned eighteen
they don't mind you owning an acetelene torch
and a gallon of gasoline
just don't buy smokes at the liquor store
or you'll both go to jail
but they'll sell you the rope so you can hang yourself
while you're listening to 'Nine Inch Nails'
It's a sorry world
It's a so-rry world
It's a sorry world when you can raise young'uns
but you can't smoke a Marlboro
It's a sorry world
It's a so-rry world
It's a sorry world when you're seventeen
and you can't call a call girl
(any mispelled words are my fault, sorry.)
