"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Do our desert sunsets fill you with 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 and what did you hope to find here? Did you from your own native land because your life was in danger? Or the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
Wrong path, choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, dream and wrong 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 send you back, if you can prove they'd imprison or you But if just going back home to starve, I'm afraid we can't help you
You see Ibrahim, become a bit of a problem This world's full of refugees 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, dream and wrong colour
I'm Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid You had Buckley's right from the moment you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you branded And all because you follow the prophet
You didn't count Ibrahim, on opportunism Our leaders knew that to many Australians, the very "Muslim" Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and And why you and your family are locked up in prison.
Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong and wrong colour
So 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 side of the barbed-wire's much better Yes I the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian meaning "no chance whatsoever". The came into use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain.