"Ibrahim" -Eric
(Album: The of Dreams)
Hey Ibrahim, tell me do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains colour But I guess the view from this of the barbed-wire's much better
So Ibrahim, can you tell me, why did you come dream were you chasing and what did you hope to find here? Did you flee from your own native land because life was in danger? Or were the much more mundane, just poverty and hunger?
path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, time, wrong dream and wrong colour
You see Ibrahim, there's something I've meaning to tell you Being and poor bestows 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 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 in queue-jumpers like you, well it's out of the question It give the world's hungry and poor the wrong impression
Wrong path, choice, wrong creed, wrong culture place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour
I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's to be totally candid You had Buckley's chance* right from the you landed to many a threat and a danger you were branded And all because you follow the Mohammed
You didn't Ibrahim, on political opportunism Our knew 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, wrong time, wrong dream and 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 this side of the much better Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much
"Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came into use in the 1890's, it's origins are now uncertain.