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    <l:song>
        <l:artist>Eminem</l:artist>
        <l:album>Encore (Bonus Disk)</l:album>
        <l:title>We As Americans</l:title>
        <l:lyric>
            <l:intro>
                <l:line>There's an intruder</l:line>
                <l:line>In my house</l:line>
                <l:line>He cut my phone line</l:line>
                <l:line>Can't dial out</l:line>
                <l:line>I scream for police</l:line>
                <l:line>But I doubt</l:line>
                <l:line>They're <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gonna</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> hear me</l:line>
                <l:line>When I shout</l:line>
                <l:line><l:sound>gunshot</l:sound></l:line>
            </l:intro>
            <l:verse>
                <l:line>A couple of cocktails will send me to jail</l:line>
                <l:line>There's a couple of cops hot on my trail</l:line>
                <l:line>But this time when I get pulled over</l:line>
                <l:line>There's a dobberman pincher</l:line>
                <l:line>And a pitbull in the seat</l:line>
                <l:line>These pigs will get BIT fooling with me</l:line>
                <l:line>Quit fooling with me</l:line>
                <l:line><l:cuss>Bitch</l:cuss>, you're <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gonna</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> see</l:line>
                <l:line>No pistol in the seat</l:line>
                <l:line><l:slang>
                        <l:literal>Why</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>Why's</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>Why does</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> it always <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gotta</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>got to</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>have to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> be an issue when you're me?</l:line>
                <l:line>In which you're <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gonna</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> see in the long run</l:line>
                <l:line><l:slang>
                        <l:literal>I'ma</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>I'm gonna</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>I'm going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> be the wrong one you wanna harass</l:line>
                <l:line>With this limo-tinted glass</l:line>
                <l:line>Flashing that flashlight on my ass</l:line>
                <l:line>Where <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>was</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>were</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> you at, last night</l:line>
                <l:line>When them <l:cuss>assholes</l:cuss> ran up on my grass?</l:line>
                <l:line>Rapper-slash-actor, kiss the crack of my cracker-slash-ass</l:line>
                <l:line>They took away my right to bare arms</l:line>
                <l:line>What I'm <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>'possed</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>supposed</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> to fight with; bare palms?</l:line>
                <l:line>Yeah, right; they're coming with bombs</l:line>
                <l:line>I'm coming with flare guns</l:line>
                <l:line>We as Americans</l:line>
            </l:verse>
            <l:chorus>
                <l:line>We as Americans</l:line>
                <l:line>Us as a citizen</l:line>
                <l:line>Gotta protected ourselves</l:line>
                <l:line>Look at how shit has been</l:line>
                <l:line>We better check ourselves</l:line>
                <l:line>Living up in these streets</l:line>
                <l:line>Through worse and through better health</l:line>
                <l:line>Surviving by any means</l:line>
                <l:line>We as Americans</l:line>
                <l:line>Us as a citizen</l:line>
                <l:line>We are samaritans</l:line>
                <l:line>What do we get us in?</l:line>
                <l:line>We better check ourselves</l:line>
                <l:line>Look at how shit has been</l:line>
                <l:line>Take a look where you live</l:line>
                <l:line>This is America and we are Americans</l:line>
            </l:chorus>
            <l:verse>
                <l:line><l:mumble>I make beaucoup bucks,
                        wearin' beaucoup vests</l:mumble></l:line>
                <l:line>Drama hanging over my head like a voodoo hex</l:line>
                <l:line>I could've been next, to fly over the cuckoo's nest</l:line>
                <l:line>With you know who, with an "S" tattooed to my chest</l:line>
                <l:line>But I'm finessed it, now I've got the industry pissy</l:line>
                <l:line>Ever since me and Dre split it 50-50 on 50, it's
                        funny</l:line>
                <l:line>We got a buzz spreading quicker than making paper
                        airplanes out of a <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>20</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>20 dollar bill</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                    <l:line><l:cuss>Fuck</l:cuss> money, I don't rap for <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>dead presidents</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>US currency</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>money</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                    <l:line>I'd rather see the president <l:censored>
                            <l:sounds-like>daed</l:sounds-like>
                            <l:actual>dead</l:actual>
                        </l:censored></l:line>
                <l:line>It's never been said, but I set precedents</l:line>
                <l:line>And the standards and they can't stand it</l:line>
                <l:line>My name should have been <l:cuss>bastard</l:cuss></l:line>
                <l:line>This <l:cuss>shit</l:cuss> should have been plastered</l:line>
                <l:line>On my forehead with a stamp</l:line>
                <l:line>I should have been <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>blasted</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>shot</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                <l:line>I <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>shoulda</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>should have</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> been; had a <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>cap</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>bullet</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> put in my ass</l:line>
                <l:line>But I'm too swift and fast for that, I'm past it</l:line>
                <l:line>I'm too old to go and cruise Gratiot,
                        <l:cuss>fuck</l:cuss> that <l:cuss>shit</l:cuss></l:line>
                <l:line>I <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>done</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>have</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> seen how fast this rap <l:cuss>shit</l:cuss> can turn into
                        some pap <l:sound>gunshot</l:sound> pap
                        <l:sound>gunshot</l:sound> <l:cuss>shit</l:cuss></l:line>
                <l:line>That quick; snap, click!</l:line>
                <l:line>But this time we got a <l:cuss>fucking</l:cuss> automatic</l:line>
                <l:line>And no one <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gon'</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>gonna</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> test this, man</l:line>
                <l:line>Clack! <l:sound>gunshot</l:sound></l:line>
            </l:verse>
            <l:repeat-chorus />
            <l:verse>
                <l:line>I got a secret if you can keep it between us</l:line>
                <l:line>I tuck two <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>ninas</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>nine millimeter firearms</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>pistols</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> under my jeans, either side of my
                        penis</l:line>
                <l:line>Under my <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>long johns</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>long underwear</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                <l:line>Under my <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>Sean Jeans</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>Sean Jean branded clothing</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                <l:line>When running with the long arm of the long long
                        gun</l:line>
                <l:line><l:slang>
                        <l:literal>I'ma</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>I'm gonna</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>I'm going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>do</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>be locked in prison for</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> 5 years</l:line>
                <l:line>No less than that</l:line>
                <l:line>No questions asked</l:line>
                <l:line>So it might be a good idea that I stop right here</l:line>
                <l:line>And quit while I'm ahead</l:line>
                <l:line>Already in the red</l:line>
                <l:line>Already got a steady infrared meant for my head</l:line>
                <l:line>A target on my back</l:line>
                <l:line>Bigger problems than that</l:line>
                <l:line>Bin Laden on my ass</l:line>
                <l:line>He <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>prob'bly</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>probably</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>gon'</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>gonna</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>going to</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang> send a <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>task</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>mercenary</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>hitman</l:alternative>
                        <l:alternative>contract killer</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                <l:line>I ain't gon' even ask</l:line>
                <l:line>They ain't gonna let me pack</l:line>
                <l:line>They ain't gon' give me my <l:slang>
                        <l:literal>semi</l:literal>
                        <l:alternative>semi-automatic firearm</l:alternative>
                    </l:slang></l:line>
                <l:line>But I got my <l:censored><l:sounds-like>whizz back</l:sounds-like></l:censored></l:line>
            </l:verse>
            <l:repeat-chorus />
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    </l:song>
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