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If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics
Words and music originally by 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, will be next
And on the streets 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
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
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The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless wonder
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
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas but not with real intent
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, will be next
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next, will be next
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
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
He describes the hate and sorrow in the world and how people seem to tolerate it yet they don't realize that the more we tolerate and do nothing about it it will just continue unchanged for the next generation to suffer through.
This song is about the work of George Orwell on the Spanish civil war. La Ramblas is a street in the centre of Barcelona where the bourgeois walked around disguised as peasants
"Gravity keeps my head down Or is it maybe shame At being so young and being so vain"
I walked down La Ramblas in the late 90s after hearing this song and it was full of young alternative kids selling weed, probably rebelling against their middle class parents.