Lyrics for American Idiot by Green Day – Songfacts

Don’t want a nation under the new mania
Hey 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

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

Don’t wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
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 who’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue

Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Writer/s: Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Edwin III Wright, Michael Ryan PritchardPublisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Don’t wanna be an American idiotDon’t want a nation under the new maniaHey can you hear the sound of hysteria?The subliminal mind-fuck AmericaWelcome to a new kind of tensionAll across the alien nationWhere everything isn’t meant to be okayTelevision dreams of tomorrowWe’re not the ones who’re meant to followFor that’s enough to argueWell maybe I’m the faggot AmericaI’m not a part of a redneck agendaNow everybody do the propagandaAnd sing along to the age of paranoiaWelcome to a new kind of tensionAll across the alien nationWhere everything isn’t meant to be okayTelevision dreams of tomorrowWe’re not the ones who’re meant to followFor that’s enough to argueDon’t wanna be an American idiotOne nation controlled by the mediaInformation Age of hysteriaIt’s calling out to idiot AmericaWelcome to a new kind of tensionAll across the alien nationWhere everything isn’t meant to be okayTelevision dreams of tomorrowWe’re not the ones who’re meant to followFor that’s enough to argue