We As Americans [French translation]

[Intro]

There's an intruder in my house

He cut my phone line: can't dial out

I scream for police, but I doubt

They're gonna hear me when I shout

[Verse 1]

A couple of cocktails'll send me to jail

There's a couple of cops hot on my trail

But this time, when I get pulled over

There's a Doberman Pinscher and a Pit Bull in the seat

These pigs'll get bit foolin' with me, quit foolin' with me

Bitch, you're gonna see, no pistol in the seat

Why it always gotta be an issue when you're me?

And which you're gonna see

In the long run, I'ma be the wrong one

You wanna harass with this limo-tinted glass

Flashin' that flashlight on my ass — where was you at

Last night when them assholes ran up on my grass?

Rapper slash actor, kiss the crack of my cracker slash ass

They took away my right to bear arms

What I'm 'posed to fight with, bare palms?

Yeah, right! They comin' with bombs

I'm comin' with flare guns; we as Americans

[Hook]

We as Americans, us as a citizen

Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been

We better check ourselves

Livin' up in these streets

Through worse and through better health

Survivin' by any means

We as Americans, us as a citizen

We are samaritans, what do we get us in?

We better check ourselves

Look at how shit has been

Take a look where you live

This is America, and we are Americans

[Verse 2]

I make beaucoup bucks, wearin' beaucoup vests

Drama hangin' over my head like a voodoo hex

I coulda been next to fly over the cuckoo's nest

With you-know-who, with an S tatooed to my chest

But I've finessed it, now I've got the industry pissy

Ever since me and Dre split it fifty-fifty on 50

It's funny, we got a buzz spreadin' quicker

Than makin' paper airplanes out of a twenty

Fuck money! I don't rap for dead presidents

I'd rather see the President [dead]

It's never been said, but I set precedents

And the standards and they can't stand it

My name shoulda been bastard

The shit shoulda been plastered

On my forehead with a stamp, I shoulda been blasted

I shoulda been had a cap put in my ass

But I'm too swift and fast for that, I'm past it

I'm too old to go and cruise Gratiot — fuck that shit!

I done seen how fast this rap shit

Can turn into some pap-pap shit, that quick, snap click

But this time, they got the fucking automatic

Ain't no one gon' test this man — clack-click!

[Hook]

We as Americans, us as a citizen

Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been

We better check ourselves

Livin' up in these streets

Through worse and through better health

Survivin' by any means

We as Americans, us as a citizen

We are samaritans, what do we get us in?

We better check ourselves

Look at how shit has been

Take a look where you live

This is America, and we are Americans

[Verse 3]

Sshhhhh I got a secret, if you can keep it between us

I tuck two nina's under my jeans either side of my penis

Under my long johns, under my Sean Johns

One run-in with the long arm of the law I'm long gone

I'ma do five years — no less than that, no questions asked

So it might be a good idea that I stop right here

And quit while I'm ahead, already in the red

Already got a steady infrared meant for my head

A target on my back, bigger problems than that

Bin Laden on my ass, he probably gon' send a task

I ain't gon' even ask, they ain't gon' let me pack

They ain't gon' give me my semi, but I got my weed back

[Hook]

We as Americans, us as a citizen

Gotta protect ourselves, look at how shit has been

We better check ourselves

Livin' up in these streets

Through worse and through better health

Survivin' by any means

We as Americans, us as a citizen

We are samaritans, what do we get us in?

We better check ourselves

Look at how shit has been

Take a look where you live

This is America, and we are Americans

• Artist:Eminem
• Album:Straight From The Lab (2003)