If you tolerate this - Manic Street Preachers

If you tolerate this (video) (intro) (midi)

Am - Em - F - C - Em (2x)

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1. The future teaches you to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold,

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so if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists.

Am Em F C

Bullets for your brain today, but we'll forget it all again,

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monuments put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless wonder.

Dm Am G

And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next,

Dm Am G

and if you tolerate this, then your children will be next,

will be next, will be next, will be next.

+ Am - Em - F - C - Em

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2. Gravity keeps my head down, or is it maybe shame,

F C G

at being so young and being so vain.

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Holes in your head today, but I'm a pacifist,

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I've walked La Ramblas but not with real intent.

+ CHORUS

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+ Will be next.

Dm C G

+ And on the street tonight an old man plays

Dm Am G

with newspaper cuttings of his glory days.

F C G

And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next,

Dm Am G

and if you tolerate this, then your children will be next,

will be next, will be next, will be next.

+ F - C - G - Dm - Am - G (3x) + F - C - G

Ah ah ah….

(Manic Street Preachers)