Lyrics Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Ami Emi

1. The future teaches you to be alone

The present to be afraid and cold

So if I can shoot rabbits

Then I can shoot fascists

2. Bullets for your brain today

But we'll forget it all again

Monuments put from pen to paper

Turns me into a gutless wonder

Dmi

R: And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Dmi

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Will be next, will be next, will be next

3. Gravity keeps my head down

Or is it maybe shame

At being so young

And being so vain

4. Holes in your head today

But I'm a pacifist

I've walked La Rambas but

Not with real intent

R: And if you...

Dmi Ami

*: And on the streets tonight

An old man prays

Dmi Ami

With newspaper cuttings

Of his glory days

R: And if you...