A D G D A   
Don't wanna be an American idiot. 
A D G D A G 
Don't want a nation under the new media. 
A D G D A 
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? 
A D G D A G 
The subliminal mindfuck America. 
 
 
D 
Welcome to a new kind of tension. 
A 
All across the alien nation. 
E                              A 
Everything isn't meant to be okay. 
D 
Television dreams of tomorrow. 
A 
We're not the ones who're meant to follow. 
E 
Well that's enough to argue. 
 
A D G D A  
Well maybe I'm the faggot America. 
A D G D A G 
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. 
A D G D A  
Now everybody do the propaganda. 
A D G D A G 
And sing along in the age of paranoia. 
 
D 
Welcome to a new kind of tension. 
A 
All across the alien nation. 
E                             A 
Everything isn't meant to be okay. 
D 
Television dreams of tomorrow. 
A 
We're not the ones who're meant to follow. 
E 
Well that's enough to argue. 
 
Don't wanna be an American idiot. 
One nation controlled by the media. 
Information nation of hysteria. 
It's going 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.