Bergab [English translation]

This is a life in the hood, it doesn't go upwards just downhill

it is the life in the hood that makes survival hard for you

Honestly..

This is how the life is in the hood, it doesn't go upwards just downhill

the life in the hood is a whore and then you die as if that was it

Honestly?!

[Verse I:]

in the hood it doesn't go upwards just downhill

he wants to go up, but he doesn't know about gravity,

because he never learned anything but how to be cool,

Because being cool will definitely bring you through your time in the hood,

he's so cool, he's the boss in his building,

in the hood you don't get past him if you need drugs

he supplies all of them, and the business is booming,

he doesn't look at prices anymore, he just buys the best,

he has money, he's well of, he's made it far in the hood,

but he doesn't know that this makes the boys in the hood jealous

he feels safe, coke makes him think that this is his city

and he has that steel friend that scares everyone off

it takes just one night, five guys, three with guns

one against his head, he let them in unintentionally,

They take his stuff and shoot him after he's packed it up,

that's what happens when you make the hood your enemy

[Chorus]

[Verse II:]

She is only fourteen and no one likes her, that's what she says

She has no friends, doesn't go to any parties

She lives alone with mum, but mum drinks a lot

One could think she doesn't care how her child feels

the girl doesn't like being home, she hangs around the train station

she's there for hours every day, with that train station boy

They understand each other, he says he feels the same

For a completely normal life he'd be way too stupid

He is on heroin, she is in love with him

She steals money from her mum and gives it to him

At first she only watches as he takes it and dreams away

but soon she's on this shit as well

Mum kicks her out, the guy sends her on the streets,

She fucks perverted old men who scare her

and then she becomes pregnant, he kicks her in the stomach

the baby looks to die, they get it out with surgery

it survives but its mother didn't make it

Surviving here was hard, she couldn't do it

some it kills, some it makes stronger,

But all fight day and night... in the hood

[Chorus]

[Verse III:]

But it doesn't always go bad, I mean, look at me

I was really lucky that they didn't get to me

of course I fucked up, needed money, sold shit

I saw the big ones smoking, thought it was cool and joined in

but I had a dream and I kept hold of it

I wanted out of the hood, to shape my life myself

I know it's not easy, but look you can make it

You can do it, you just need the courage

I'm out of the hood now, but it stays in me

And that's why I don't feel good, something's foul here

the whole world is a hood, no one sees it

Slowly but surely it's going downhill

[Chorus]

You can take the boy out of the hood, but not the hood out of him

You can take the boy out of the hood, but not the hood out of him

• Artist:Sido
• Album:Ich (2006)