Nimrods The Soundtrack
American Idiot - Live
Song Meaning
Billie Joe Armstrong (Alternative Press, 2004): “When I say something like ‘faggot America,’ I’m describing me and other disenfranchised people, because maybe I feel like I’m not being fairly represented.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (Stuff Magazine, 2004): “I use harsh language to get people’s attention. A term like ‘faggot America’ makes you think about gay-marriage rights. These suits are telling people they don’t have the same rights as straight people. And it’s like 'what you really think is that you don’t want those fags getting the same rights as you.’ And [American Idiot] also deals with human relationships. Between man and woman, man and man, and relationships with yourself.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (Stuff Magazine, 2004): “I use harsh language to get people’s attention. A term like ‘faggot America’ makes you think about gay-marriage rights. These suits are telling people they don’t have the same rights as straight people. And it’s like 'what you really think is that you don’t want those fags getting the same rights as you.’ And [American Idiot] also deals with human relationships. Between man and woman, man and man, and relationships with yourself.”
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Lyrics
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria
The subliminal mind fuck America
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 meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Maybe I am the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria
The subliminal mind fuck America
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 meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Maybe I am the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Live History
Live History
- Total Plays
- 715 times / #11 most played
- Most Recent
- February 8, 2026 Santa Clara, CA
- Earliest Known
- January 1, 2004 London, Canada
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