Title: "If you tolerate this then your children will be next"
Artist: Manic Street Preachers, Album: "This is my truth, tell me yours"
[Intro]
Am Em F C Em7
Am Em
The future teaches you to be alone
F C
The present to be afraid and cold
F C G
"So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists."
Am Em
Bullets for your brain today
F C
But we'll forget it all again
F
Monuments put from pen to paper
C G
Turns me into a gutless wonder.
G Dm C G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
G F C G G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
G G G
Will be next, Will be next, Will be next.
Am Em
Gravity keeps my head down
F C
Or is it maybe shame
F C G
At being so young and being so vain.
Am Em
Holes in your head today
F C F C G
But I'm a pacifist, I’ve walked La Ramblas but not with real intent.
G Dm C G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
G F C G G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
Will be next, Will be next, Will be next.
Dm C G F
"And on the street tonight- An old man plays, with newspaper cuttings of
C G
his glory days."
G Dm C G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
G F C G G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
Will be next, Will be next, Will be next.