Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
For over twenty years it’s been a brilliant song, it was just never realised the Manic Street Preachers were predictive programmers as well as great musicians.
The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascistsBullets for your brain today
But we’ll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonderAnd 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 nextGravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vainHoles in your head today
But I’m a pacifist
I’ve walked La Ramblas
But not with real intentAnd 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 nextAnd on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory daysAnd 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