here comes the helicopter second time today
everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
how many kids they’ve murdered only god can say hey
if i had a rocket launcher if i had a rocket launcher
if i had a rocket launcher i’d make somebody pay
i don’t believe in guarded borders and i don’t believe in hate
i don’t believe in generals or their stinking torture states
and when i talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
if i had a rocket launcher if i had a rocket launcher
if i had a rocket launcher i would retaliate
on the rio lacantun one hundred thousand wait
to fall down from starvation or some less humane fate
cry for guatemala with a corpse in every gate
if i had a rocket launcher if i had a rocket launcher
if i had a rocket launcher i would not hesitate
i want to raise every voice at least i’ve got to try
every time i think about it water rises to my eyes
situation desperate echoes of the victims cry
if i had a rocket launcher if i had a rocket launcher
if i had a rocket launcher some son of a bitch would die
Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Year: 1985
Decade: 80s
Language: en
Word Count: 103