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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...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
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
Lyrics submitted by radical347
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This song is amazing.
Bruce Cockburn wrote it after he took a trip to Nicaragua in the early 80's (a type when political oppression was going on and the US government were being a load of assholes. Kinda like what Bush is doing in Iraq, asshole).
Anyway, this song is about an individual who has seen so much terror and suffering and he's wishing that he could just end all of the violent issues, even if it means killing American troops who are oppressing people-although this person doesn't believe in violence but is so desperate to make shit end
@River Wolf Guatumala, not Nicaragua. American troops? The Reagan administration was giving military assistance to Guatemala but there were no American troops in either country.
@River Wolf Guatumala, not Nicaragua. American troops? The Reagan administration was giving military assistance to Guatemala but there were no American troops in either country.