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