Don't want to be an American Idiot Don't want a nation under the new mania And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation Everything isn't meant to be OK Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow For that's enough to argue Well maybe I am the fag of America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda Now everybody do the propaganda And say hello to the age of paranoia Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation Everything isn't meant to be OK 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 Is calling out to idiot America Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation Everything isn't meant to be OK Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow For that's enough to argue