🎵 American Idiot // by Green Day

231 ContributorsTranslationsFrançaisDeutschČeskyTürkçePolskiEspañol American Idiot Lyrics Starting off the album with a bang, “American Idiot” is a scathing takedown of American culture in the years following 9/11. Released as the first single from the album, it has since become one of Green… Read More  [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 mindfuck America [Chorus] Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation 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 [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 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 Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones who're meant to follow For that's enough to argue