"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 catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change But I guess the view this side of the barbed-wire's much better
So Ibrahim, can you me, why did you come here? What dream were you chasing and did you hope to find here? Did you from your own native land because your life was in danger? Or were the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and
Wrong path, choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and colour
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been 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 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 fleeing poverty, war and oppression So to in queue-jumpers like you, well it's out of the question It would give the world's hungry and poor the wrong
Wrong path, wrong choice, creed, wrong culture place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
I'm Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid You had Buckley's chance* right from the moment you Already to many a threat and a you were branded And all because you follow the prophet
You count Ibrahim, on political opportunism Our leaders that 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, 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 fire, and the trees 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 use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain.