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 sonofabitch would die



(CHIAPAS, MEXICO AND TORONTO -- FEBRUARY AND APRIL 1983)