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 fuck 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 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 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 want to 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

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