If I Had a Rocket Launcher

Here come 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 sonofabitch would die Chiapas, Mexico and Toronto February and April 1983