xBand:Green Day
Song:American Idiot
Album:American Idiot
Guitar/Vocals:Billie Joe
Richard Hurtado
(Note:The times are only for the guitar parts
not the lyrics)
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Dont want to be an american idiot.
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Dont want a nation under the new media.
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And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
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The subliminal mindfuck america.
[Chorus]
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Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tommorow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Well maybe I'm the faggot america.
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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.
[Chorus]
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Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tommorow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.
[Instrumental]
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[Solo]
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[Instrumental]
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(clean) (2:09-2:11)
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[Verse]
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Dont want to be an american idiot.
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One nation controlled by the media.
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Information age of hysteria.
(no guitar) It's going out to idiot america.
[Chorus]
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Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tommorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.
[Instrumental]
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[Outro]
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| / Slide up
| ~ Vibrato
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