Rocket Launcher

"Up to that point, I had not been particularly supportive of the violent overthrow of government and that sort of stuff. But there I was in this refugee camp, hearing these unbelievable stories of the atrocities these people had fled from, stories that were beyond anything the grossest slasher movie could come up with, and in the background was this helicopter going back and forth along the border. The Guatemalan flyers had a recent history of having strafed the camps from the air, even though the camps were in Mexico. The desperate condition these people were in, and their dignity in the face of that desperation, all this horror made me feel the people in those helicopters had surrendered their humanity long since. I actually had great reservations about recording it. And then I thought once I had recorded it, 'The radio people are never going to play that song.' And of course it got a lot of radio play." 

-- from "The Witness, Saturday Night Online", March 3, 2001, by Bill Cameron.