Halt mich fest [English translation]

Half my circle of friends is in jail

People think small stays small, young Dirk Bach

Gang bang music 101

We get into fights every day, young timewasting

And no-one believes in anything

Cos we're going other ways.

No politician holds thank-you speeches round my way

In my quarter it's grey and cold

The good die young

Round our way not many people get old

So fight your way through, survive

Life is a game

I sit at home, practice the rules

Monopoly of the streets

Every second person wants to earn their rep

Make no mistakes, there aren't many second chances

You can't ask for hope around here

Nobody knows it, believe me,

And if I have nothing, I go out and claw, predator

(Ah)

So take no notice of me

Instead show me, show me another view.

And I run through the night

See the lights of the city

And I look for you

I look out of the window

The world is grey

Every hope I have crumbles to dust

Come and hold me tight

Please hold me tight yeah.

I never wanted to be like them

Be like the rest

Had problems in school

Trouble with the law

Was never the cool one in school

I wasn't in your group of friends

I was a loner as a kid

Then came teenagerhood in Berlin

Then there were G's, Breakers,

I was one of them

I had nothing except once hope

And that's why I hung around the block, the block every night

And once I learnt, who seeks will find

And 10 years later I'm the coolest in the Business

(Please hold me tight)

So I can finally sleep again

Yes, life was never good to me

But you were good to me

It's not enough for me to say

"You have something good in me

I owe you almost everything,

Almost everything I have

Life is an up, an up and down"

And I run through the night

See the lights of the city

And I look for you

I look out of the window

The world is grey

Every hope I have crumbles to dust

Come and hold me tight

Please hold me tight

I look out of the window

The world is grey

Every hope I have crumbles to dust

Come and hold me tight

Please hold me tight