Erinnerung [English translation]

Hey, the people see me live on TV today,

rich and popular,

But do you know how everything actually went?

I mean long before the hype, before the rhymes and the suites,

Labouring every day and didn't earn shit

Big town, yeah I was alone without a goal

Turn night into day

The spiritual war between rhymes I wrote

And I am in fact in love

There lay basically only the hope that the one sees it

So fuck music,

I have to make money

I too would rather chill if it worked without that

But sadly you pay a flat plus power and fuel

not with the expectation of hitting the jackpot sometime

They say you have to go to Berlin

I never expected something big to happen with me

For some it was cocaine or weed

Instead, in crises, I took the drug music

Refrain:

And whenever it goes up

I write it down, because so it stays in memory

Whatever happens

I reach for paper

and write my life into my memory

And whenever I am down

a song wakes me up again

It doesn't go too well

You get motivated

and notice that life is great again

Sorry, still broke, no money at hand

Hanging at Psaiko's on the couch

Because that's where I live at the moment

Turn up the shit

We didn't know why it was that way

but built big things like a silicone implant

Still without contract

Still without charts

Still far from any millions

More like cans in the parc

More like pants all fucked up

The first time she says she likes me, no joke

Wait, where's my card

Slept over again

In the office out of breath

Ugh, yrah, I actually don't live

at home at the moment but that's just a phase

Doesn't sound as good as the Moonlight Sonata

More like disgrace

A fork in the lap

I get going

write flows

Just a matter of time

Until that shit pays off I count the days

Refrain

The big year and they notice I created hits

Said that's really rad

And all the things I do right

Come over some time and let's drink something

Zap sign and the stuff was fixed

I didn't know exactly what to do with it

Because that it would be like it is today

I wouldn't have thought that back then

And sometime something's gonna work out

Daddy didn't find it all that rad

Because I quit school with the words "I don't give a fuck"

And from then on it was gas station food

Driving through the country

We were caught in the fun

And when they asked whether I'd stand in a wardrobe

I said of course, just say when

I'm game really fast

Hey, we couldn't guess,

like a flame detector gas,

but the hands went up like a tank in Iraq

And you know you're at the top when you've been all the way down

So fuck the rest

Sometime the day is gonna come, let's go

Refrain

• Artist:Cro
• Album:Melodie (2014)