"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with As the sky fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour But I guess the view from this side of the much better
So Ibrahim, can you me, why did you come here? What 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, creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, dream and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been meaning to you Being hungry and poor no special status upon you We won't send you back, if you can prove imprison or kill you But if you're just going back home to starve, I'm afraid we 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 you, well it's out of the question It would give the world's hungry and poor the wrong
path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, dream and wrong colour
I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be totally You had Buckley's chance* right from the moment you to many a threat and a danger you were branded And all because you the prophet Mohammed
You didn't count Ibrahim, on political Our leaders knew that to 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, wrong creed, culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong
So Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Do our beautiful desert fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains colour But I guess the view this side of the barbed-wire's much better Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's better
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian meaning "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came into use in the 1890's, although it's are now uncertain.