[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Don't wanna be an American idiot.
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Don't want a nation under the new media.
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And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
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The subliminal mindfuck America.
 
[Chorus]
D
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alien nation.
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Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
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For that's enough to argue.
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
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I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
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Now everybody do the propaganda.
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And sing along in the age of paranoia.
 
[Chorus]
D
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alien nation.
E                             A
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E                           N.C.
For that's enough to argue.
 
[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
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[Verse 3]
A
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
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One nation controlled by the media.
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Information nation of hysteria.
N.C.
It's calling out to idiot America.
 
[Chorus]
D
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alien nation.
E                             A
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
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For that's enough to argue.
 
[Outro]
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