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 this then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
| testpilot | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 07:02 I'm tolerating it and I have no children... should I be worried? |
| rushed (Edwardsville, IL) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 05:25 wenatchee wrote: So far I am on the same page . . . Me too.... |
| ziakut (Albeit In The Meantime) | Posted: Jun 20, 2012 - 07:41 Very nice! |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 13:54 freddyfender wrote: An excellent theme song for the brave souls who are currently Ocupying Wall Street! |
| freddyfender (Colorado Springs....deep inside the belly of the Evangelical beast) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 13:15 An excellent theme song for the brave souls who are currently Ocupying Wall Street! |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Jul 08, 2011 - 08:26 Don't be so quick to think that today's youth don't have a collective mind of thier own. If you fail to recognize this you will be lost in the past. |
| jcioban (Between NYC and Boston) | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 16:53 MrBanshee wrote: I think that if it's overproduced, then there must have been more than one producer in the studio. |
| zenmumu (Barcelona - Spain) | Posted: May 06, 2011 - 03:18 true, true, true THAT'S TRUE!! We can't tolerate this.... ![]() ![]() |
| MrBanshee | Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 11:25 hewhallock wrote: Lyrics may be pertinent but the song is way over-produced. Couldn't wait for it to end. Wasn't there a producer in the studio? I think that if it's overproduced, then there must have been more than one producer in the studio. |
| wenatchee (Duvall, WA) | Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 11:17 Danimal174 wrote: First time I've heard this, and I like what I hear. So far I am on the same page . . . |
| hewhallock (Alamosa, CO) | Posted: Dec 31, 2010 - 09:11 Lyrics may be pertinent but the song is way over-produced. Couldn't wait for it to end. Wasn't there a producer in the studio? |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: May 22, 2010 - 15:38 So true! Never stops amazing me of all the BS the American people actually tolerate. |
| torturedpotato (planet potato) | Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 17:47 Apparently I have no soul because all I hear is The Scorpions. |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: Jun 09, 2009 - 13:42 First time I've heard this, and I like what I hear. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jun 09, 2009 - 13:20 Gish05 wrote: The Manics are such an underrated band... this album in particular is just amazing. Everyone should check it out in full, like most of their discography. Thanks, I haven't heard much from this band and I'd like to hear more. |
| ShakeyNeil (Okanagan, BC) | Posted: Jun 09, 2009 - 13:19 Great band. Glastobury Festival 2007. Awesome! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Jun 09, 2009 - 13:18 sdn wrote: Wow, blast from the past! Haven't heard this in ages. One of my top ten favorite songs from 1999. If the lyrics don't give you goosebumps, you have no soul. ![]() |
| snakefinger (HOUSTON *keep it funky*) | Posted: Mar 06, 2009 - 17:41 Welsh rock band - kewl! |
| Gish05 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Dec 01, 2008 - 22:31 The Manics are such an underrated band... this album in particular is just amazing. Everyone should check it out in full, like most of their discography. |
| jlind (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Aug 29, 2008 - 08:13 Much better than that other Manic Street Preachers song that was getting a ton of air time a couple years ago, this is actually kind of good. |
| sdn (Philadelphia) | Posted: Aug 29, 2008 - 08:12 Wow, blast from the past! Haven't heard this in ages. One of my top ten favorite songs from 1999. If the lyrics don't give you goosebumps, you have no soul. ![]() |
| appy_monkey (between here and there) | Posted: Jul 28, 2008 - 16:34 I didn't even hear the song, but I'll rate a 7 for the title! |
| Contaminator (Serbia (...is not suburbia)) | Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 16:25 Great song! Fantastic lyrics! |
| 67nj (Ravenna, Italy) | Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 16:08 i dig this |
| Atlantis | Posted: Feb 22, 2008 - 04:43 Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote: this band has an interesting history... their lead singer for years left one day and has never been seen since. he has never been found. after reading the comments about this song, maybe some think he needs to come back. i kinda like it.
You mean their lyricist. He never sang with the band. He totally disappeared and no one knows whether he is alive or not. To say he is living somewhere in Asia or Africa or to say he killed himself, both comments are equally ignorant and stupid. |
| Atlantis | Posted: Feb 22, 2008 - 04:38 Kruril wrote: Descerning listeners might realize that this band has taken a lot from Guns'n Roses and turned into something incredibly different, vibrant, and well put group. One of the most touching songs would be Ocean Spray, about James Bradfield's mother dieing of cancer. The trumpet solo is absolutely stunning. I honestly find Know Your Enemy an excellent album spanning a wonderful set of topics, and frankly, it shows off their terrific evolution from a Guns 'n Roses clone. However, I really like Roses in the Hospital. Stay away from album called The Holy Bible if you don't like loud, raucous, and controversial music ;) It's not their best as I can't listen to it more than once every few weeks but it makes many pungent points.
Ah, you are one of those dreaded "new" fans then. Holy Bible is universally regarded as an absolute classic and is undoubtably the best Manic's album. Even upon release, James said is was not an album designed to be listened to over and over but one that everyone should have. The pinnacle of the greatest rock n' roll story ever. The first 3 albums are unique works of genius, but they went off the rails a bit after that and are now pretty damn awful. Obvious events forced the change. |
| Atlantis | Posted: Feb 22, 2008 - 04:33 Bob-Loblaw wrote: Sometimes you gotta listen to an album a bunch of times before you 'get it' -this band definitely has it, but good! The lyrics on this song as well as Elian (sp?) the album is a great one to listen to in it's entirety while working on the computer Do you mean Baby Elian which is on the album after this one? |
| Waybo (Northern California) | Posted: Jan 21, 2008 - 18:25 Like it. 7. For some reason it reminds me of Suede. |
| superflyLD (Boston, MA) | Posted: Oct 19, 2007 - 12:44 I love the soaring guitars and vocals.. nice ethereal stuff here... solid 8 for me |
| aquadonia (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: Oct 19, 2007 - 12:42 |
| Brestois (Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland) | Posted: Oct 19, 2007 - 12:42 Oh yeah! Thanks Bill. |
| iggydavid | Posted: Jul 17, 2007 - 05:48 10 :) |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jul 17, 2007 - 04:45 I'd heard this song before but hadn't really twigged the serious lyrics. A sound warning to apathetic individualistic youth, which hopefully some have taken to heart. 8 from the Nottingham jury. |
| davin (Victoria, British Columbia) | Posted: May 15, 2007 - 10:52 Myrrh wrote: It's not true. I'm in India and the African savannah and I've not run into him. This is just a story intended to add romanticism to an otherwise typical musician's suicide. lol. |
| thereflex2004 (UK) | Posted: Jun 02, 2006 - 10:57 great song, powerful lyrics |
| ladainty (UK) | Posted: Dec 07, 2005 - 12:03 Myrrh wrote: It's not true. I'm in India and the African savannah and I've not run into him. This is just a story intended to add romanticism to an otherwise typical musician's suicide. rrrright, that tiny provincial part of the world called India... |
| supremo | Posted: Oct 24, 2005 - 14:47 Is it just me or is there a lot of songs on RP that end with that same ambient-feedback-sounding sustained tone? Or maybe just a lot of songs in general that end with that? |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Oct 09, 2005 - 22:20 Gotta investigate this band. Up one point even! |
| tony99 | Posted: Jun 13, 2005 - 16:35 drH wrote: Awesome fade out of the ending of Pink Floyd's Fearless!!!!
The fans of Liverpool Football Club singing their anthem 'You'll Never Walk Alone' |
| Bob-Loblaw (Vancouver, Canada) | Posted: Mar 02, 2005 - 22:01 Sometimes you gotta listen to an album a bunch of times before you 'get it' -this band definitely has it, but good! The lyrics on this song as well as Elian (sp?) the album is a great one to listen to in it's entirety while working on the computer |
| crowhog2000 (Cincinnati, OH) | Posted: Dec 19, 2004 - 03:25 never heard this band....definitely quite likeable! |
| RichardPrins (earth) | Posted: Nov 19, 2004 - 14:47 8) |
| Rainman1975 (Fairfax, VA) | Posted: Oct 06, 2004 - 06:53 Yeah! I totally agree! Great fade from Pink Floyd! Meddle is one of the most underated Floyd albums! Everyone always forgets it but I think it's up there with Wish you Were Here and Animals. Rock on! |
| trekhead | Posted: Oct 06, 2004 - 06:51 Wow, Mike Connors as an Indian Stock trader... Oh, wait, that was Mannix Teepee Shares....... A 6. |
| vvaffle (New Jersey, USA) | Posted: Sep 21, 2004 - 16:25 drH wrote: Awesome fade out of the ending of Pink Floyd's Fearless!!!!
I agree. |
| JokesandJokesandJokes | Posted: Aug 08, 2004 - 12:56 drH wrote: Awesome fade out of the ending of Pink Floyd's Fearless!!!!
Well, probably about anything would sound better than Pink Floyd, unless you are high, that's a different story SNOOCHIES!! |
| drH (waiting for Nov 3) | Posted: Jul 11, 2004 - 19:38 Awesome fade out of the ending of Pink Floyd's Fearless!!!! |
| SonOfSam (Spain (My little corner of the world)) | Posted: Jun 15, 2004 - 00:24 britrock wrote: Their last good single before the poor "Know Your Enemy".
The Manics are excellent live - you're always likely to get a good rant from Nicky Wire. Totally agree. I believe is time for them to think about retiring. |
| rulebritannia (Sussex countryside, England) | Posted: May 06, 2004 - 09:07 geavis wrote: The lyrics alone garner it a 9 from me. Would u mind providing a link for the lyrics? The music is so awful I had to hit the Mute button.
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| skhooly (Nairn, Scotland) | Posted: Apr 23, 2004 - 11:23 ronny wrote: Such a wonderful song. Why is it rated so low here? :(
Probably cos its not that good !!! :puke: |



