"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, me what do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful sunsets fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the 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 you chasing and what did you hope to find here? Did you from your own native land because your life was in danger? Or were the much 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 I've been meaning to tell you Being hungry and poor bestows no special upon 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 afraid we can't you
You see Ibrahim, become a bit of a problem This full of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression So to take in queue-jumpers like you, well out of the question It give the world's hungry and poor the wrong impression
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 chance* right from the moment you landed to many a threat and a danger you were branded And all because you follow the prophet
You didn't count Ibrahim, on political Our leaders that to many Australians, the very word "Muslim" Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and And that's why you and family are locked up in prison.
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong Wrong place, time, wrong dream and wrong colour
So Ibrahim, me what do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the change colour But I guess the view from this side of the 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 it's are now uncertain.