Don't wanna be an American Idiot
Don't wanna nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mind $#&@ America

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
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 !@$)got 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
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
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 alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue