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 media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind-fuck
America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the idiot 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 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 idiot 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 wanna be an American idiot. One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria, is calling out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the idiot 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!