American Idiot - Green Day

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American Idiot
Green Day
Chords by Lumina (july)
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[Intro]
         
         
         
        

[Verse]
          
Don't wanna be

              
 an American i

               
diot.
          
Don't want a n

              
ation under th

                     
e new media.
          
And can you he

              
ar the sound o

                     
f hysteria?
          
The subliminal

              
 mindfuck Amer

             
ica.

[Chorus]

Welcome to a n

ew kind of ten

sion.

All across the

 alien nation.
             
Everything isn

              
't meant to be

  
 okay.

Television dre

ams of tomorro

w.

We're not the 

ones who're me

ant to follow.
             
For that's eno

              
ugh to argue.

[Instrumental]
         
        

[Verse 2]
          
Well maybe I'm

              
 the faggot Am

                
erica.
          
I'm not a part

              
 of a redneck 

                
agenda.
          
Now everybody 

              
do the propaga

              
nda.
          
And sing along

              
 in the age of

                    
 paranoia.

[Chorus]

Welcome to a n

ew kind of ten

sion.

All across the

 alien nation.
             
Everything isn

              
't meant to be

  
 okay.

Television dre

ams of tomorro

w.

We're not the 

ones who're me

ant to follow.
             
For that's eno

              
ugh to argue.

[Instrumental]
         
         
         
         

[Bridge]
               
               
        
        

[Verse 3]

Don't wanna be

 an American i

diot.

One nation con

trolled by the

 media.
           
Information na

            
tion of hyster

 
ia.
N.C.
It's calling out to idiot America.

[Chorus]

Welcome to a n

ew kind of ten

sion.

All across the

 alien nation.
             
Everything isn

              
't meant to be

  
 okay.

Television dre

ams of tomorro

w.

We're not the 

ones who're me

ant to follow.
             
For that's eno

                       
ugh to argue.

[Outro]
         
         
         
         N.C.