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 
Where 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 

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 
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 

Don't want to be an American idiot 
one nation controlled by the media 
Information age of hysteria 
calling out to idiot America 

Welcome to a new kind of tension 
All across the alien nation 
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.