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