Music Tracks: If you tolerate this....your children will be next by Manic Street Preachers

Dar: This is my truth, tell me yours

Dar: Rock

Dar: 1998

Dar: 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 las 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

And on the street 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 thisThen your children 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

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

Dar:  The song was about the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of volunteers from around the world who joined the International Brigade fighting Franco's fascist insurrection against the Spanish Republic and the song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time. 

A photograph of a young child killed by Nationalist bombs is shown under a sky of bombers with the stark warning "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" written at the bottom.

Dar: What amazing lyrics - any song with lyrics such as " gravity keeps my head down!, or is it maybe shame, At being so young And being so vain" is good enough for me! Truely great song and makes me proud to be Welsh

Dar: The line “If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” is attributed to a Welsh farmer who signed up with the Republican fighters. This was originally quoted in the book Miners Against Fascism by Hywel Francis. 
Also the song is in the Guinness World Records as the number one single with the longest title without brackets.