Don't wanna be
an American idiot
Don't want a nation
under the new mania
And can you hear
the sound of hysteria
The subliminal
mindfuck America
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't
meant to be okay
In television
dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones
who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm
the f##### America
I'm not a part of
a redneck agenda
Now everybody
do the propaganda
and sing along
to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't
meant to be okay
In television
dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones
who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be
an American idiot
One nation controlled
by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to
idiot America
Welcome to a
new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't
meant to be okay
In television
dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones
who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue