The Adverts, No time to be 21 from their single (1978).
Life's short, don't make a mess of it To the ends of the earth, you'll look for a sense in it No chances, no plans I'll smash the windows of my box, I'll be a madman It's no time to be twenty-one To be anyone
Hold back, see what you miss of it Out of the shadows, into the thick of it No maybes, no guessing I'm getting wound up, the plot sickens It's no time to be twenty-one To be anyone
Strip down to the bare facts of it Into the cold heart, no hope and all that shit No chances, no plans I think I'll be somebody else or else a madman It's no time to be twenty-one To be anyone
We'll be your untouchables, we'll be your outcasts We don't care what you project on us It's no time to be twenty-one No time to be twenty-one No time to be twenty-one No time to be twenty-one
