Don't want to 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 ok 
 Television dreams of tomorrow 
 We're not the ones meant to follow 
 For that's enough to argue 

 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 
 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 
 calling out to idiot America 

 [bad word] to a new kind of tension 
 All across the alien nation 
 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