Green Day - American Idiot      (Album: American Idiot) (2004)

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Intro:             A   D   G  D A G  |    A   D   G  D A E

Don't wanna be an American Idiot.         A   D   G D A G

Don't want a nation under the new media.  A  D  G D A E

And get you hear the sounds of hysteria   A  D  G D A G

The subliminal mindf’’ America.           A  D  G D A E

[D] Welcome to a new kind of tension

[A] All across the alien nation

[E] Everything isn't meant[A] to be okay

[D] Television dreams of tomorrow

[A] We're not the ones who're meant to follow

[E] Convincing them to walk you

A   D   G  D A G  |     A  D  G D A 

Well maybe I'm the f’head America

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

Now everybody do the propaganda

And sing along in the age of paranoia

[Chorus]

SOLO:            A   D   G  D A G  |     A   D   G  D A E   |

                 D,   A ,  E ,  A  |   D ,     A ,    E,

                 A   D   G  D A G  |     A   D   G  D A   

Don't wanna be an American Idiot

One nation controlled by the media

Information age of hysteria

It's going out to Idiot America

[Chorus]

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