Exit From Babylon
 
 

1. Big Brother is Watching You
2. Secrets
3. Isn't it a Pity
4. It's Time for a Change
5. In Spite of You
6. Painted Window
7. Jessica
8. Sweet Mother Earth
9. If I had a Rocket Launcher
10. Peace Prayer
11. On My Way to Houston

Exit From Babylon

If I had a Rocket Launcher

Copyright Bruce Cockburn  

If I had a Rocket Launcher

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

If I had a rocket launcher

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

If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher

I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacuntun

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

If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher

I would not hesitate

Instrumental

I want to raise every voice,

At least I’ve got to try

Every time I think about it

Water raises to my eyes

Situation desperate

Echoes of the victim’s cry

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