American Idiot Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Verse 1]
Don't wanna be an American idiot
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
Don't want a nation under the new mania
[G][C][F][C][G]
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria?
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
The subliminal mind-fuck America
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Chorus 1]
[C]Welcome to a new kind of tension
[G]All across the alien nation[D]
Where everything isn't meant to be o[G]kay
[C]Television dreams of tomorrow
[G]We're not the ones
who're meant to [D]follow
For that's enough to argue

[Interlude 1]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Verse 2]
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
[G][C][F][C][G]
Now everybody do the propaganda
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
And sing along to the age of paranoia
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Chorus 2]
[C]Welcome to a new kind of tension
[G]All across the alien nation[D]
Where everything isn't meant to be o[G]kay
[C]Television dreams of tomorrow
[G]We're not the ones
who're meant to [D]follow
For that's enough to argue

[Interlude 2]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Solo 1]
[C][G][D][G]
[C][G][D]
[G][C][F][C][G]
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Verse 3]
[G]Don't wanna [C]be an Amer[F]ican[C] idi[G]ot
[G]One[C] nation contro[F]lled by [C]the med[G]ia
[G]Infor[C]mation Age[F] of [C]hyster[G]ia

[Chorus 3]
It's calling out to idiot America
[C]Welcome to a new kind of tension
[G]All across the alien nation[D]
Where everything isn't meant to be o[G]kay
[C]Television dreams of tomorrow
[G]We're not the ones
who're meant to [D]follow
For that's enough to argue
[G][C][F][C][G]

[Outro 1]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]
[G][C][F][C][G][F]
[G][C][F][C][G]