Löwenzahn [English translation]

[Hook: Sido]

Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

Ah, Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

[Verse 1: Sido]

I know the hood like my jacket pocket, I knew

what I had to do when I had nothing to eat

Five of us in a shitty barracks

Everything is champagne and the rest was battens

Man, this life's no fun and not soft, like concrete

You've got to do some shit to get out of the shit

I mean, there where the sky is always black

Where you're on your arse, a false move and that's that

There, where you don't expect anything more

Your place in the sun is the lights on the street

If you talk shit then you'll get hit

For every little thing there's a punishment

But this man has no time for your facts

In the shit you can go under or grow

If you see a yellow flower that breaks through the cement

Then think of me, change yourself.

[Hook: Sido]

Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

Ah, Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

[Verse 2: Olexesh]

At 16 I had to leave my parents' house

Was too into my rap trip, pumping "My Block" in the classroom

Yeah, the Russian dealt records, instead of books I had

stuff in my satchel, in the playground we practiced with the scales.

Rapping was out of the question, I was still too busy

Learning the German language, first I needed to get it together

The top class, the final stage this road was long

I can be an example and also someone who will break you down

And so you get old slowly, step on the gas, forget the time

Speak your hate out of your mouth

Say why you're silent

I can ride to the end of the world with no ticket

As long as hope counts on me

There's no conductor to check on me

And if something falls from above, it's seldom anything good

I tell you my friend, let's stay on the ground instead

We'll go round in circles and forget who we were

Look, between the blocks a new dandelion's growing.

[Hook: Sido]

Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

Ah, Between humility and delusions of grandeur

All the problems that needed to be solved

God forgive us that we were angry

Growing up on the streets like dandelions

[Part 3: Sido]

Ah, between Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg,

Where you hear all these stories,

There's a yellow flower growing in the dirt

In a spot where no other flower grows

No-one notices it, everyone tramples it

But it doesn't give up; whatever a rose can do, it can do as well.

We'll fight, until we're dandelion clocks

Waiting for the wind.

• Artist:Sido
• Album:VI (2015)