Don't wanna be an American idiot
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


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American Idiot Lyrics as written by Frank Edwin Iii Wright Michael Ryan Pritchard

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    TB 1624, I get what you're saying...but you can't put together a list of the band's best songs on their albums and say..."If they waited, THIS could have been." That is insane. First of all, is they waited that long, I'm sure the songs would sound much different. And Green Day would have been out of the public conscienious-ness for too long.

    And The Korean, I get what you are saying too. But don't shoot down every Green Day fan. I, for one, am a student at Yale. While much of their fan base (unintentionally, I hope) is a younger demographic, there are people who have matured and still enjoy Green Day.

    silversun_raptureon February 08, 2007   Link

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