"Ibrahim" -Eric Bogle (Album: The Colour of Dreams) Hey Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better So Ibrahim, can you tell me, why did you come here? What dream were you chasing and what did you hope to find here? Did you flee from your own native land because your life was in danger? Or were the reasons much more mundane, just poverty and hunger? Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour You see Ibrahim, there's something I've been meaning to tell you Being hungry and poor bestows no special status upon you We won't send 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 help you You see Ibrahim, you've become a bit of a problem This world's full of refugees fleeing poverty, war and oppression So to take in queue-jumpers like you, well it's out of the question It would give the world's hungry and poor the wrong impression Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour I'm afraid Ibrahim, it's time to be totally candid You had Buckley's chance* right from the moment you landed Already to many a threat and a danger you were branded And all because you follow the prophet Mohammed You didn't count Ibrahim, on political opportunism Our leaders knew that to many Australians, the very word "Muslim" Meant Al-Quaeda, Hammas, the Taliban, and terrorism And that's why you and your family are locked up in prison. Wrong path, wrong choice, wrong creed, wrong culture Wrong place, wrong time, wrong dream and wrong colour So Ibrahim, tell me what do you think of Australia? Do our beautiful desert sunsets fill you with wonder? As the sky catches fire, and the trees and the mountains change colour But I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better Yes I guess the view from this side of the barbed-wire's much better ***************************************** NOTE: "Buckley's Chance" - Australian colloquialism meaning "no chance whatsoever". The phrase came into use in the 1890's, although it's origins are now uncertain. Bu döküman AkorMerkezi.com'da yayınlanmıştır. http://www.akormerkezi.com