Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation that doubt the new media
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 meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Maybe I am 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
Everything isn't meant to be okay
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
 [bad word] to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue