Don't want to be an American idiot. 
Don't want a nation under the new menia 
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 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 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 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.