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 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 meant to follow

For that's enough to argue

Don't wanna be an American idiot (don't wanna be an American idiot)

One nation controlled by the media (one nation controlled by the media)

Don't wanna be an American idiot (don't wanna be an American idiot)

One nation controlled by the media (don't wanna be an American idiot)

Don't wanna be an American idiot (one nation controlled by the media)

One nation controlled by the media (don't wanna be an American idiot)

Information age of hysteria

It's calling 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 meant to follow

For that's enough to argue