“I don’t believe in guarded borders and I don’t believe in hate”

Canadian Singer-Songwriter Bruce Cockburn, song quote from If I Had a Rocket Launcher, 1983

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, hey
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