[ti:We Are Americans] [ar:Eminem] [al:Straight from the Lab] [re:简易歌词编辑器 for UWP] [ve:3.11.8] [00:03.96] [Intro] [00:05.62] There's an intruder in my house [00:12.95] He cut my phone line: can't dial out [00:16.63] I scream for police, but I doubt [00:21.53] They're gonna hear me when I shout [00:41.84] [Verse 1] [00:51.20] A couple of cocktails'll send me to jail [00:53.98] There's a couple of cops hot on my trail [00:56.26] But this time, when I get pulled over [00:58.11] There's a Doberman Pinscher and a Pit Bull in the seat [01:01.09] These pigs'll get bit foolin' with me, quit foolin' with me [01:04.59] Bitch, you're gonna see, no pistol in the seat [01:07.45] Why it always gotta be an issue when you're me? [01:10.28] And which you're gonna see [01:12.06] In the long run, I'ma be the wrong one [01:13.76] You wanna harass with this limo-tinted glass [01:16.47] Flashin' that flashlight on my ass — where was you at [01:19.49] Last night when them assholes ran up on my grass? [01:22.14] Rapper slash actor, kiss the crack of my cracker slash ass [01:25.86] They took away my right to bear arms [01:28.78] What I'm 'posed to fight with, bare palms? [01:31.01] Yeah, right! They comin' with bombs [01:32.95] I'm comin' with flare guns; we as Americans [01:35.09] [Hook] [01:36.72] We as Americans, us as a citizen [01:38.62] Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been [01:41.17] We better check ourselves [01:42.92] Livin' up in these streets [01:44.29] Through worse and through better health [01:45.68] Survivin' by any means [01:47.20] We as Americans, us as a citizen [01:49.48] We are samaritans, what do we get us in? [01:52.71] We better check ourselves [01:53.98] Look at how shit has been [01:55.41] Take a look where you live [01:56.89] This is America, and we are Americans [01:59.35] [Verse 2] [01:59.59] I make beaucoup bucks, wearin' beaucoup vests [02:01.54] Drama hangin' over my head like a voodoo hex [02:04.12] I coulda been next to fly over the cuckoo's nest [02:07.20] With you-know-who, with an S tatooed to my chest [02:09.78] But I've finessed it, now I've got the industry pissy [02:12.77] Ever since me and Dre split it fifty-fifty on 50 [02:15.23] It's funny, we got a buzz spreadin' quicker [02:17.95] Than makin' paper airplanes out of a twenty [02:19.55] Fuck money! I don't rap for dead presidents [02:23.31] I'd rather see the President {dead} [02:24.73] It's never been said, but I set precedents [02:27.00] And the standards and they can't stand it [02:29.49] My name shoulda been bastard [02:31.29] The shit shoulda been plastered [02:32.92] On my forehead with a stamp, I shoulda been blasted [02:35.28] I shoulda been had a cap put in my ass [02:37.97] But I'm too swift and fast for that, I'm past it [02:40.58] I'm too old to go and cruise Gratiot — fuck that shit! [02:43.66] I done seen how fast this rap shit [02:47.99] Can turn into some pap-pap shit, that quick, snap click [02:48.87] But this time, they got the fucking automatic [02:52.09] Ain't no one gon' test this man — clack-click! [02:54.09] [Hook] [02:54.83] We as Americans, us as a citizen [02:57.48] Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been [03:00.52] We better check ourselves [03:01.91] Livin' up in these streets [03:03.16] Through worse and through better health [03:04.63] Survivin' by any means [03:05.89] We as Americans, us as a citizen [03:08.49] We are samaritans, what do we get us in? [03:11.08] We better check ourselves [03:12.94] Look at how shit has been [03:14.11] Take a look where you live [03:15.79] This is America, and we are Americans [03:16.55] [Verse 3] [03:17.20] *sshhhhh* I got a secret, if you can keep it between us [03:19.73] I tuck two nina's under my jeans either side of my penis [03:22.93] Under my long johns, under my Sean Johns [03:24.97] One run-in with the long arm of the law I'm long gone [03:27.94] I'ma do five years — no less than that, no questions asked [03:31.76] So it might be a good idea that I stop right here [03:34.56] And quit while I'm ahead, already in the red [03:37.53] Already got a steady infrared meant for my head [03:40.21] A target on my back, bigger problems than that [03:42.94] Bin Laden on my ass, he probably gon' send a task [03:45.71] I ain't gon' even ask, they ain't gon' let me pack [03:49.06] They ain't gon' give me my semi, but I got my weed back [03:50.81] [Hook] [03:51.30] We as Americans, us as a citizen [03:53.59] Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been [03:56.30] We better check ourselves [03:57.65] Livin' up in these streets [03:59.26] Through worse and through better health [04:00.76] Survivin' by any means [04:02.18] We as Americans, us as a citizen [04:04.89] We are samaritans, what do we get us in? [04:07.67] We better check ourselves [04:09.41] Look at how shit has been [04:10.65] Take a look where you live [04:11.92] This is America, and we are Americans