American Idiot

Don't want to be an American (Ab5)idiot.

Don't want a nation under the new media.

Hey, can you hear the sound of hysteria?

(Ab5)The sub a liminal mindf**k America.

(Db)Welcome to a new kind of tension (Ab)all across the alienation,

(Eb)where ev'rything isn't meant to be (Ab)okay.

(Db)Television dreams of tomorrow,

(Ab)we're not the ones who're meant to follow,

(Eb)for that's enough to argue.

Well, maybe I am the f**got America.

I'm not a part of a redneck agendida.

Now ev'rybody, do the propaganda,

(Ab5)and sing along to the age of paranoia.

(Db)Welcome to a new kind of tension (Ab)all across the (Eb)alienation,

where ev'rything isn't meant to be (Ab)okay.

(Db)Television dreams of tomorrow,

(Ab)we're not the ones who're meant to (Eb)follow,

for that's enough to argue.

(Gb5)Don't want (Db5)to be an (Gb5)(Db5)American (Ab5)idiot,

one (Db5)nation (Gb5)controlled by (Db5)the (Ab5)media.

(Db5)Information (Gb5)age of (Db5)(Ab5)hysteria is calling out to idiot (Ab5)America.