"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 colour But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's better
So Ibrahim, can you tell me, why did you come What dream were you chasing and what did you to find here? Did you flee your own native land because your life was in danger? Or were the reasons much more mundane, poverty and hunger?
Wrong path, choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, something I've been meaning to tell you Being hungry and poor no special status upon you We won't send you back, if you can prove they'd 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 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 hungry and poor the wrong impression
Wrong path, choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong and wrong colour
I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be candid You had chance* right from the moment you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you were And all because you the prophet Mohammed
You didn't count Ibrahim, on political Our leaders knew to many Australians, the very word "Muslim" Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and terrorism And why you and your family are locked up in prison.
path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, dream and wrong colour
So Ibrahim, tell me what do you of Australia? Do our beautiful desert fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the and the mountains change colour But I guess the view from this side of the much better Yes I guess the view this side of the barbed-wire's much better
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian meaning "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain.