Introdução: G# C# F# C# G#

Verso:

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              Don't wanna be an American Idiot.
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              Don't want a nation that under the new media.
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              And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
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              The subliminal mind fuck America.


Refrão:

C#
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
G#
All across the alienation.
Eb                            G#
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
C#
Television dreams of tomorrow.
G#
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Eb
for that's enough to argue .


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              Well maybe I'm the faggot American.
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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.


Refrão:

C#
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
G#
All across the alien nation.
Eb                            G#
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
C#
Television dreams of tomorrow.
G#
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Eb
For that's enough to argue


Verso:

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              Don't wanna be an American Idiot.
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              One nation controlled by the media.
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              Information age of hysteria.
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              It's calling out the Idiot America.


Refrão:

C#
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
G#
All across the alien nation.
Eb                            G#
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
C#
Television dreams of tomorrow.
G#
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Eb
Convincing them to argue.