Lyrics: Billie Joe Armstrong/Tre Cool/Mike Dirnt
Music: Billie Joe Armstrong/Tre Cool/Mike Dirnt
Producer: Mike Dirnt
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
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 ****ed up America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along in the age of paranoia
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
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
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
Piano: Rob Cavallo
Audio Assistant: Brian "Dr. Vibb" Vibberts/Dmitar "Dim-E" Krnjaic/Greg "Stimie" Burns/Jimmy Hoyson/Joe Brown
Bass Guitar: Mike Dirnt
Drums: Tre Cool
Audio Engineer: Doug McKean
Saxophone: Jason Freese
Guitar: Billie Joe Armstrong
Mixing Engineer: Chris Lord-Alge
Additional Production: Chris Dugan/Reto Peter
Lead Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong
Backing Vocals: Mike Dirnt/Tre Cool
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen