G# (x4) 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 (x2) 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 (x4) (x2) 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*ck 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