bds@homxa.UUCP (B.STERMAN) (10/31/84)
There is one song which says it all. "Death on Two Legs" by Queen.
You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you breach
Death on two legs you're tearing me apart
Death on two legs tou never had a heart
of you're own
Insane, should be put inside
You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null and void
Do you feel good?marno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley) (11/11/84)
Does anyone remember a song that got some air play this summer, called, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"?
amber@aluxz.UUCP (TIEDE) (11/19/84)
> > Does anyone remember a song that got some air play this summer, called, > "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"? it was done by Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Coburn, BTW) on the Stealing Fire album.
wfi@unc.UUCP (William F. Ingogly) (11/23/84)
The song "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" is by the Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn. It's from his most recent album; can't remember the title, but it has a painting of a person eating fire on the cover. Bruce Cockburn has been around for a number of years, and has six or seven albums available as U.S. releases (more as imports). He had a top-forty hit a few years back, "Wondering Where The Lions Are."
ed@ISM780.UUCP (11/29/84)
--------- > Does anyone remember a song that got some air play this summer, called, > "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"? This is *NOT* a hate song, by any means. It's by Bruce Cockburn, from his latest album entitled 'Stealing Fire'. Although the song expresses rage, it is neither wanton (like most hate songs) nor unwarranted. Like other songs on this album, it is inspired by his Oxfam sponsored trip to Central America. This song in particular expresses his rage at the frequent helicopter attacks carried out by the Guatemalan army on the refugee camps just this side of the Mexican/Guatemalan border. The people in these camps were forced from their homes, and fled to these camps leaving behind slain family and friends. These camps have almost no food, and literally boil the leaves off the trees to feed their kids. As if their plight were not enough, the Guatemalan army continually carries out attacks on these camps, with no purpose but for the `sport'. Bruce Cockburn stayed for a week at one of these camps, and witnessed first-hand the affliction of these people. He heard the (gruesome) stories they had to tell. When he saw the choppers coming, two or three times a day, he found himself very angry and willing to retaliate if he had the chance. I just saw him perform here in LA this weekend, and he gave a 5 minute introduction to this song, explaining why he wrote this song and the emotions behind it. "This is NOT a call to arms!!", he pleaded. "I felt that, given the chance, I would strike back, because at some point they stopped being human." Here are the lyrics to that song: "If I Had a Rocket Launcher", by Bruce Cockburn, 1983 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 to sickening to relate 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 corspe 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 desparate echoes of the victims cry if i had a rocket launcher ... some sonofabitch would die. Ed Lycklama decvax!cca!ima!ism780!ed