My grandpa came to this land in a green Opel Commodore
From Sivas to Lemgo, seven kids with no cash
With my grandma, six girls and one boy
He was strict about work, forced everyone here to work
He wanted us to have it better one day
Because the reasons for moving sure weren't the weather
No school, where was the state?
When my mom was 15, job in a paper mill
Probably the youngest there
It was the time when she fell for an artist
My father sang for peace when he saw her from the stage
Love in a foreign culture and land
My grandpa didn't want it, so they ran away
Sometime they came back and kissed grandpa's hand
It was shortly after that their little son was conceived
Used to be a rap fan, today a business icon
We're a certain breed of people
Have fought hard our whole lives
Little cash, but keep going
I'll repeat: guest worker
We love Germany with all our hearts like crazy
But sadly it doesn't love us back every time
Who likes to watch their neighbors fail
Unless they're guest workers
Believe me, this Freezy is telling the truth
What language course? Back then people worked
I remember, that's what our free time looked like
We guest-worker sons were just home alone
I grew up with my cousins, Inan and Cem
My parents had split up again in the meantime
That's how the three of us grew up, brothers forever
We weren't rich, just happy kids
Who knows how the stars fall in the universe?
Our Inan died in a car crash
Since then the family was never the same
Yet all we wanted here was to find some contentment
What can we do? You just look ahead
But we'd already lost our smiles
I look at you and that gives me courage
That's why it's written on my back: Akbulut
We're a certain breed of people
Have fought hard our whole lives
Little cash, but keep going
I'll repeat: guest worker
We love Germany with all our hearts like crazy
But sadly it doesn't love us back every time
Who likes to watch their neighbors fail
Unless they're guest workers
My youngest aunt Handan wasn't much older
Lived with us like my sister
She was a rebel, I know that today
She showed me the music called hip-hop
She went as an au pair to America
Where she then tragically lost her life
And that was our second blow of fate
Even though I don't even like that word
That's the story of my family
Came from Turkey to Germany
My grandpa died this year, he was sick, God rest him
Worked his whole life and couldn't even speak the language
Of a generation that sacrificed itself
So someone like me can benefit today
Cuz if he hadn't come to Germany back then
I wouldn't have recorded this track for you today
We're a certain breed of people
Have fought hard our whole lives
Little cash, but keep going
I'll repeat: guest worker
We love Germany with all our hearts like crazy
But sadly it doesn't love us back every time
Who likes to watch their neighbors fail
Unless they're guest workers