[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn`t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We`re not the ones who`re meant to follow
For that`s enough to argue
[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn`t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We`re not the ones who`re meant to follow
For that`s enough to argue

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Don`t wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It`s calling out to idiot America

[Chorus]
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn`t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We`re not the ones who`re meant to follow
For that`s enough to argue