Don't wanna be an American idiot! Ok I think they've got something here Don't want a nation under the new media Wait, you like Old Media??? And can you hear the sound of hysteria? Projection much? The subliminal mind fuck America! Clearly you don't understand patriots Alright! Welcome to a new kind of tension that you people have caused All across the alien nation which the government caused Where everything isn't meant to be okay elites want us to be anxious Television dreams of tomorrow Idiocracy projects what the DS wants us to be... slaves We're not the ones who're meant to follow They thought you would follow the stars
Well, maybe I'm the faggot America yes, yes you are, go on I'm not a part of a redneck agenda(alright!) what you mean to say is patriotism Now everybody do the propaganda you can keep trying, but no (projection again) And sing along to the age of paranoia Stop giving us reasons to be paranoid!
What a waste of digital space and memory the left has made for us, this is one among many trashy leftists bands. This really is a shameful time of America when this song came out. (2004)
I haven't thought about Greenday in years tbh. It just clicked in my head for some reason, I read the lyrics and was like wow, ok. I figured it was going to either be based AF if they went after fake media or the dumbest thing if they attacked real journalism, as I read then remembered later the rest of the lyrics, I thought, yup, they went full retard. I forgot most of the song's lyrics until I read them today.