Tim Wilson - It's a Sorry World lyrics

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You can go to war when you're 18

But you can't buy a beer

You can load missiles on a submarine

But you can't buy a pistol here

You can breathe chemical weapon fumes

But they don't want you to smoke

so when you're shootin' up a bar in Baghdad, don't order a rum and coke

You can have sex when you're 17

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 to the clinic if you're 15

And your folks don't have to know

Or you can take penicillin, just don't watch people

Gettin' naked on video

You can be a governor at 21

Or a president at 35

You can be the senator from south Carolina

If you can just stay alive

They'll throw you in with sharks when you're 12 years old

Teach you to scuba dive

But when you're 94 and can't see anymore

they'll still let you drive

Just don't get caught ith no beer in your hand if you just turned 18

They don't mind you ownin' 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 a rope

so you can hang yourself while you're listening to Nine Inch Nails

It's a sorry World

It's a sooorry world

It's a sorry world when you can raise youngans but you can't smoke a Marlborough

It's a sorry world when you're 17 and you can't call a callgirl.

Thanks to Jim McDaniel for these lyrics