The Boats Keep On Arriving

They come in boats the boats seem over crowded the poor unwanted from Lands far away Only to be taken to detention centres and told that in this Land you cannot stay To come this far they've sold all of their worldly possessions and for rejection a huge price they pay But still the refugee boats coming southwards and more and more arriving every day. The authorities do not make them feel welcome and the message given to them is quite clear In our Country of your type far too many you must go back you are not welcome here You have entered this Land of ours illegally and we will not give sympathy to you You have come here without i.d. or passports and you have jumped the immigration queue. And every day the boats keep on arriving the crowded boats that bring the refugees From Countries where human rights are non existent ravaged by wars, droughts, famines and disease Lands bombed by foreign powers for selfish reasons the victims of man's inhumanity Are coming south in boat loads in their thousands from war torn distant Lands beyond the sea. The Government build new detention centres these people must not be shown sympathy We cannot be seen to be soft on such a matter they have entered our Land illegally And though we supported those who bombed their Country for the displaced we are not obliged to care And if they come here then we will deport them they can go back home or go to live elsewhere.