"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Do our beautiful sunsets fill you with wonder? As the sky fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour But I guess the view from this of the barbed-wire's 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 were the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and
path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been to tell you Being hungry and poor bestows no status upon you We won't send you back, if you can prove they'd imprison or you But if you're going back home to starve, I'm afraid we can't help you
You see Ibrahim, you've become a bit of a 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 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 Buckley's chance* right from the you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you branded And all because you the prophet Mohammed
You didn't count Ibrahim, on political 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 dream and wrong
So Ibrahim, tell me do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the and the mountains change colour But I guess the from 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 colloquialism "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came into use in the 1890's, it's origins are now uncertain.