If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Manic Street Preachers

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shool rabbits
Then I can shool fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

Chorus
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next (will be next will be next)
Yes if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next (will be next will be next)

Gravity keeps my head down
Is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain
Holes in your head today but
I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas but not
With real intent

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

Chorus

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