Terra Trans Terram

Terra Trans Terram they say

Meaning land beyond the land

We’ll build them an island faraway

With our machines and work-worn hands

Our rich earth we’ll give to them

Measured out by the ton

We simply haven’t the room for them

There’s nothing else to be done

We’ll build them Terra Trans Terram

A place for their own dreams

Over half of them are on the scam

Not as desperate as they seem

We’ll fashion an island just for them

And we’ll even give them clothes

They’re lucky we’re doing this for them

In their swarms and their droves

They make me feel a little unwell

I’ll be glad when they are gone

That horrible sticky immigrant smell

Those nasty refugee songs

Look at all we have done for them

And look at all we give

I haven’t heard a thanks from one of them

Even though we help them live

Terra Trans Terram’s afloat

Square miles of our charity

A British built arc, an island boat

Our compassion in clarity

Homes and hope we give to them

Filtered water and their crops

Lord above we’re good to them

Our goodness knows no stops

A truly exceptional people are we

There’s no one on Earth like us

To take a people and make them free

With the minimum of fuss

Perhaps we’ve done too much for them

At the expense of all our own

We wouldn’t want to soften them

I quite fancy a brand new home

Let’s leave behind this slate grey place

Let’s leave behind our jobs

Let’s start a Terra Trans Terram race

Without those immigrant slobs

It wouldn’t be right to give to them

Now I don’t want to sound too harsh

It’s not our place to give to them

Terra Trans Terram is ours