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.