If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
The future teaches you to be aloneThe present to be afraid and coldSo if I can shoot rabbitsThen I can shoot fascists
Bullets for your brain todayBut we'll forget it all againMonuments put from pen to paperTurns me into a gutless wonder
And if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextAnd if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextWill be nextWill be nextWill be next
Gravity keeps my head downOr is it maybe shameAt being so young and being so vain
Holes in your head todayBut I'm a pacifistI've walked La RamblasBut not with real intent
And if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextAnd if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextWill be nextWill be nextWill be nextWill be next
And on the street tonight an old man playsWith newspaper cuttings of his glory days
And if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextAnd if you tolerate thisThen your children will be nextWill be nextWill be nextWill be next