Don’t want to be an American idiot / Don’t want a nation under the new mania / Can you hear the sound of hysteria? / The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension / All across the alienation / Where everything isn’t meant to be o.k. / Television dreams of tomorrow / We’re not the ones meant to follow / For that’s enough to argue

Maybe I’m the faggot 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 o.k. / Television dreams of tomorrow / We’re not the ones meant to follow / For that’s enough to argue

Don’t want to be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media / Information age of hysteria / Calling out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension / All across the alienation / Where everything isn’t meant to be o.k. / Television dreams of tomorrow / We’re not the ones meant to follow / For that’s enough to argue

[By Billie Joe Armstrong – Mike Dirnt – Tré Cool © Warner/Chappell Music Inc – Green Daze Music – Reprise Records, 2004]