Don't wanna be
an American idiot
Don't want a nation
under the new media
And can you hear
the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal
mind-f**k America
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't
meant to be okay
Television dreams
of tomorrow
We're not the ones
who're meant to follow
Well that's enough
to argue
Well maybe I'm
the f****t America
I'm not a part of
a redneck agenda
Now everybody
do the propaganda
And sing along in
the age of paranoia
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alien
nation, everything
isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams
of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're
meant to follow but
that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an
American idiot
One nation controlled
by the media
Information Age
of hysteria
It's going out to
idiot America
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alien
nation, everything
isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams
of tomorrow
We're not the ones
who're meant to follow
but that's enough to argue