"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
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 La 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
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 La 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
3 comentários:
Caro Zé, Dos MSP gosto imenso do "Motorcycle Emptiness" e do "La Tristeza Durera (Scream to a Sigh), no entanto a mensagem desta canção é um alerta para aqueles que são pais e têm a obrigação moral e cívica de demonstrar aos seus filhos todas as injustiças e crueldades deste mundo. Neste sentido fica registado a tua preocupação e a minha!!!
Um abraço!
Pedro,
A canção é sobre a "promenade" de Hemingway aquando da guerra civil espanhola, mas é também, mais do que isso...
Abraço,
Fernando
Deixa-me só acrescentar, que não consigo deixar de estabelecer um paralelo entre a inconsequência e o marialvismo de Hemingway e um certo ex-candidato à presidência da república. ;-)
Abraço,
Zé
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