If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

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If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next by Manic Street Preachers

About If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with lyrics written by Nicky Wire (credited as Nick Jones), and music written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore. It was released on August 24, 1998 and became the first of the band's two number one singles in the United Kingdom to date. The song is in the Guinness World Records as the number one single with the longest title without brackets. .

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics

[00:20.11] The future teaches you to be alone
[00:24.61] The present to be afraid and cold
[00:29.20] "So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists"
[00:36.35]
[00:40.90] Bullets for your brain today
[00:44.45] But we'll forget it all again
[00:49.32] Monuments put from pen to paper
[00:52.15] Turns me into a gutless wonder
[00:56.73]
[00:57.48] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[01:08.61] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[01:15.23] Will be next, will be next, will be next
[01:20.28]
[01:31.01] Gravity keeps my head down
[01:34.75] Or is it maybe shame
[01:39.53] At being so young and being so vain
[01:46.97]
[01:51.04] Holes in your head today
[01:54.51] But I'm a pacifist
[01:59.54] I've walked La Ramblas but not with real intent
[02:06.34]
[02:07.29] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[02:18.32] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[02:25.08] Will be next, will be next, will be next, yeah will be next
[02:36.16]
[02:49.01] And on the street tonight
[02:53.12] An old man plays with newspaper cuttings of his glory days
[03:06.88]
[03:07.29] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[03:18.41] And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
[03:25.05] Will be next, will be next, will be next
[03:30.74]

From the album: Pub Songs