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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Canonical path: /cockburn-bruce/if-i-had-a-rocket-launcher
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If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Read If I Had a Rocket Launcher lyrics by Bruce Cockburn on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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If I Had a Rocket Launcher
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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(3x)... 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(3x)...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(3x)...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(3x)...Some son of a bitch would die
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