Tim Wilson - It's a Sorry World lyrics

You can go to war when you're eighteen But you can't buy a beer You can launch missiles 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 Baghdad Don't order a rum and Coke You can have sex when you're seventeen You just can't have a 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 Or you can take penicillin Just don't watch people getting naked on video You can bе a governor at twenty one Or a prеsident at thirty five You can be the senator from South Carolina If you can just stay alive They'll throw you in with sharks when you're twelve years old Teach you to scuba dive But when you're ninety four and can't see anymore They'll still let you drive Just don't get caught with no beer in your hand If you just turned eighteen They don't mind you owning an acetylene torch And a gallon of gasoline You just can't buy smokes at the liquor store Or y'all will 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 sorry 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 sorry world It's a sorry world when you're seventeen And you can't call a call girl