If You Tolerate This

Manic Street Preachers

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


Bullets for your brain today


But we'll forget it all again


Monuments put from pen to paper


Turns me into a gutless wonder


And if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


And if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


Will be next


Will be next


Will be next


Gravity keeps my head down


Or 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 if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


And if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


Will be next


Will be next


Will be next


Will be next


And on the street tonight an old man plays


With newspaper cuttings of his glory days


And if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


And if you tolerate this


Then your children will be next


Will be next


Will be next


Will be next