Lyrics:

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria
The subliminal mind fuck America
(Ahh)
Welcome 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

Well, maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of the redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
(Oh)
Welcome 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

Ahh

Alright New York City
How're you guys doing tonight?
I said hey-oh (Hey-oh)
I said hey-ey (Hey-ey)
Alright, we're gonna break this shit down, alright

Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria, go!
(Is going out to idiot America)
Welcome 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

Ladies and Gentlemen
Welcome to 'Green Day presents An American Idiot'
Right now we're gonna play our entire album for you, right now
So this is a glorified record release party, alright