If I Had a Rocket Launcher Songtext
von Bruce Cockburn

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
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
100, 000 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