Don't want to be an American idiot Don't want a nation under the new media Ain't got you with the sound of hysteria Let's subliminal my America Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation The years are meant to be okay The television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow But that's enough to argue Well maybe I'm the American I'm not a part of a redneck agenda Now everybody do the propaganda And sing along at the edge of paranoia Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything is meant to be okay The television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow But that's enough to argue Don't want to be an American idiot One nation controlled by the media Information age of hysteria Is calling out to idiot America Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything is meant to be okay The television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow But that's enough to argue Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you