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

Close enough to feel this moment Closer, closer Take another hit Just fake it 'til you feel it Open up and let me in I just wanna feel you Hey, all I really know is that I felt okay When I met you in April You were looking at me

Someone who'll watch over me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still were often told, seek and ye shall find So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet Hes the big affair I cannot forget Only

There’s no way that it’s not going there With the way that we’re looking at each other We just dance backwards into each other Trying to keep our feelings secretly covered Every second with you I want another But maybe we can hold off one sec So we can

We're halfway there We're looking good now And nothing's gonna get in the way And looking back now I never thought that I'd ever say Leaning on each other's shoulders Then we turn around And see we've come so far somehow If we never flew

That's just like you to tell me I've nothing to fear Now it's easy for me to see It couldn't be that easy It'd have to be much harder You baby were like the sky You held me up to let me fly I am a broken house I'm holding on to broken vows

Help me remember When nothin' else mattered The way that we used to be "Cause you were lovin' me Just for the night, one last time One more good memory When I look back That's what I wanna see Oh, help me remember

Always knowing we're the ones you can stand beside Sometimes in life we gotta fight Looking for the truth in wrong and the black in white You can't divide, you can't divide We're the ones you can't divide, ones you can't divide Nothing that makes you

Eighteen years had come and gone For mama they flew by But for me they drug on and on We were loading up that Chevy Both tryin' not to cry Mama kept on talking Putting off goodbye Then she took my hand and said "Baby, don't forget

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