Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind [bad word] America
 [bad word] 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

Well maybe I'm the [bad word] America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
 [bad word] 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.

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
 [bad word] to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
(I'm not [bad word] ok!)
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue