Don't want to be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
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 O.K.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Maybe I am the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda!
And sing along in the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be O.K.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones 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 alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be O.K.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue


Guitar, Lead Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong
Bass, Vocals: Mike Dirnt
Drums, Vocals: Tré Cool
Produced by: Rob Cavallo & Green Day
Engineered by: Doug McKean
Recorded at: Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, CA
Assistant Engineers: Brian "Dr. Vibb" Vibberts, Greg "Stimie" Burns
Recorded at: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA
Assistant Engineers: Jimmy Hoyson, Joe Brown
Recorded at: 880 Studios, Oakland, CA
Additional Engineers: Chris Dugan, Reto Peter
Mixed by: Chris Lord-Alge
at Image Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
Assistant Engineers: Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NY
Additional Piano: Rob Cavallo
Additional Saxophone: Jason Freese
Published by WB Music Corp.
/ Green Daze Music Administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP.