If I Had A Rocket Launcher

[zippy890]

by Bruce Cockburn

http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/iiharl.html


Here comes the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
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...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...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...Some son of a bitch would die



maybe there is a good use for firearms
;-)

[geckosfeet]

1. There is always a faster (or bigger) gun.

[lilymidnite]

2. Bruce is right on

As always.

[iverglas]

3. bruce cockburn is a god

of course. (wink, you know who)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w