Producer: Billie Joe Armstrong/Mike Dirnt/Rob Cavallo/Tre Cool
Lyrics: Billie Joe Armstrong/Mike Dirnt/Tre Cool
Music: Billie Joe Armstrong/Mike Dirnt/Tre Cool
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 **** America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
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 Iā m the **** America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along in the age of paranoid
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
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 nation of hysteria
It's going out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
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
Audio Assistant: Brian "Dr. Vibb" Vibberts/Dmitar "Dim-E" Krnjaic/Greg "Stimie" Burns/Jimmy Hoyson/Joe Brown
Audio Engineer: Doug McKean
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen
Piano: Rob Cavallo
Saxophone: Jason Freese
Mixing Engineer: Chris Lord-Alge
Additional Production: Chris Dugan/Reto Peter
Backing Vocals: Mike Dirnt/Tre Cool
Guitar: Billie Joe Armstrong
Drums: Tre Cool
Bass Guitar: Mike Dirnt
Lead Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong