If I Had a Rocket Launcher lyrics

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
• Album:Stealing Fire