"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey 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 change But I guess the view from side of the barbed-wire's much better
So Ibrahim, can you me, why did you come here? dream were you chasing and what did you hope to find here? Did you flee from your own native land because your life was in Or were the reasons more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, culture Wrong place, time, wrong dream and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been to tell you Being hungry and poor no special status upon you We send 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 become a bit of a world's full of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression So to take in queue-jumpers like you, well 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 dream and wrong
I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be totally You had Buckley's right from the moment you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you branded And all because you follow the Mohammed
You didn't count Ibrahim, on opportunism Our leaders knew to many Australians, the very word "Muslim" Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and And that's why you and your are locked up in prison.
Wrong path, wrong choice, creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and 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 this side of the much better Yes I guess the view from this of the barbed-wire's much better
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came into use in the 1890's, it's origins are now uncertain.