If You Tolerate This Your Children Chords & Lyrics - Manic Street Preachers

Intro: [Am] , [Emi] , [F] , [C] , [G] x2

[Am]The future teaches you to [Em]be alone
The [F]present to be afraid and [C]cold
So [F]if I can shoot rabbits
[C]Then I can shoot [G]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

R:
And if you [Dm]tolerate this
[Am]Then your children will be [G]next
And if you [Dm]tolerate this
[Am]Then your children will be [G]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 Rambas 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

[SOLO]

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[Dm]And on the streets [Am]tonight
An old man [G]prays
With [Dm]newspaper [Am]cuttings
Of his glory [G]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

[OUTRO]
[Dmi] , [Ami] , [G] , [G] x6

[Dm] , [A] , [G]