More songs by Green Day
Description
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen
Guitar: Billie Joe Armstrong
Producer: Billie Joe Armstrong
Lead Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong
Assistant Engineer: Brian "Dr. Vibb" Vibberts
Additional Engineer: Chris Dugan
Mixing Engineer: Chris Lord-Alge
Assistant Engineer: Dmitar "Dim-E" Krnjaic
Engineer: Doug McKean
Assistant Engineer: Greg "Stimie" Burns
Saxophone: Jason Freese
Assistant Engineer: Jimmy Hoyson
Assistant Engineer: Joe Brown
Bass Guitar: Mike Dirnt
Producer: Mike Dirnt
Background Vocals: Mike Dirnt
Additional Engineer: Reto Peter
Piano: Rob Cavallo
Producer: Rob Cavallo
Drums: Tré Cool
Producer: Tré Cool
Background Vocals: Tré Cool
Writer: Billie Joe Armstrong
Writer: Mike Dirnt
Writer: Tré Cool
Lyrics and translation
Original
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In 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 a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue