Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones who're meant to follow For that's enough to argue Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation

Feel your breath on the back of my neck. Where have I, Come to be? That's left for me. I wish that I was still there. I wanna keep on breathing. Head down running from the beast. Break neck speeding, taken down on my birth.

Feel your breath on the back of my neck. Where have I, Come to be? That's left for me. I wish that I was still there. I wanna keep on breathing. Head down running from the beast. Break neck speeding, taken down on my birth.

Well, I'm out of Alabama, down to Louisiana Halfway 'bout to New Orleans Yeah, I'm leaning on my Chevy Rolling through the levees trying to get to where I wanna be That's where I reckon I can finally put myself at ease Check my life there at the border

If we’re gonna go out, baby While the rain from your hair drip-drops That’s where I gotta be with you lookin' like this Let’s get lost somewhere Anywhere we ain’t gotta hold back I wanna feel your heart go tic-toc Let's go out like that Out where I can

Not when I'm 23 That's where I wanna be I'm just a single man (yeah) 'Cause that's what a young nigga do (what I do) Switchin' lanes, actin' a fool Got the fitted hat to the back neck froze and I'm iced up (not when I'm 23) Not when I'm 23 Don't need no

Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones who're meant to follow For that's enough to argue Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation

Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alienation Where everything isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones who're meant to follow For that's enough to argue Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation

Cause I don't wanna be like this I've been runnin' these streets For too long now I've got nothing that's true But this song now But the further I go I wanna go home And I wanna go back to the start Back where we started from

I should know, but it's cold And I don't wanna be lonely Where did you go? Hurry, I'm worried Told you not to worry But maybe that's a lie Honey, what's your hurry? Won't you stay inside? Remember not to get too close to stars