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

where everythin'

isn't meant to be okay

Television

dreams of tomorrow

we're not the ones

who meant to follow

for 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

to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a

new kind of tension

all across the alien nation

where everythin'

isn't meant to be okay

Television

dreams of tomorrow

we're not the ones

who 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 callin' out

to idiot America

Welcome to a

new kind of tension

all across the alien nation

where everythin'

isn't meant to be okay

Television

dreams of tomorrow

we're not the ones

who meant to follow

for that's enough to argue