Jacob Zelman
@zelmannnn.bsky.social
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- boy who's also a girl - I make music in my bedroom - he/her/she/him (go crazy and mix 'em up!) jacobzelman.bandcamp.com
- boy who's also a girl - I make music in my bedroom - he/her/she/him (go crazy and mix 'em up!) jacobzelman.bandcamp.com
![[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, hey
[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]
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
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would retaliate](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:koh4kjifp6v37xc5f73ckryq/bafkreicpsg3wckjbdtriycbra3cbbhbojtimbml4kkxl4hg4nfi6nmjtxi)
![[Verse 3]
On the Rio Lacantún
One hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation
Or some less humane fate
Cry for Guatemala
With a corpse in every gate
[Chorus]
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would not hesitate
[Verse 4]
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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:koh4kjifp6v37xc5f73ckryq/bafkreibvvicsi4jan4lwevakb53kym6r7z4lvvwh5finxsfk3oxtvspgym)
![a quote from John Linnell, in Rage, April 2002: "It was recorded by Georgie Fame, but apparently it's — we're not actually completely clear on this, but it appears that it was an instrumental before it was this Georgie Fame song, that John Hendricks, of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, made up words to... which is something that that vocal group used to do; they would take a popular instrumental — or an unpopular instrumental — and make up crazy words to it, and I think this belongs in that category. It's definitely the case with the song 'Twisted' that Joni Mitchell covered — popularly known as 'my analyst told me'; some of you may remember. And [this] may well be the case; it sounds as if Yeh Yeh was written the same way, but sadly we're uninformed about this particular song."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:koh4kjifp6v37xc5f73ckryq/bafkreigsuexvg42zjnvpmw2cjtlwerc6erlskw5ayekblo6ezpfu3qcxqu)
