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