Bruce Cockburn
If I Had a Rocket Launcher
[Verse 1]
Here comes the helicopter
Second time today
Everybody scatters
And hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered
(Only God can say) Only God can say

[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I'd make somebody pay

[Verse 2]
Don't believe in guarded borders
And I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals
Or their stinking torture states
When I talk to the survivors
Of things too sickening to relate

[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would retaliate
[Verse 3]
I wanna 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

[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
Some son of a bitch would die

[Post-Chorus]
Some son of a bitch would die
Some son of a bitch would die
Some son of a bitch would die