"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change But I guess the view from this side of the much better
So Ibrahim, can you me, why did you come here? What dream were you and what did you hope to find here? Did you flee from your own native land because life was in danger? Or the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, there's I've been meaning to tell you Being hungry and poor bestows no special upon you We won't you back, if you can prove they'd imprison or kill you But if you're going back home to starve, I'm afraid we can't help you
You see Ibrahim, become a bit of a problem This world's of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression So to take in queue-jumpers you, well it's out of the question It would give the world's and poor the wrong impression
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and colour
I'm Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid You had Buckley's chance* right from the you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you were And all because you follow the prophet
You didn't Ibrahim, on political opportunism Our leaders knew that to many Australians, the very "Muslim" Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and And that's why you and your family are up in prison.
Wrong path, wrong choice, creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong and wrong colour
So Ibrahim, me what do you think of Australia? Do our desert sunsets fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains colour But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's better Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain.