American Idiot

Intro: (x4) 0:00
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Verse 1: 0:10
N.C.
Don't wanna be an American
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Idiot.
N.C.
Don't want a nation under the new
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Media.
0:21
N.C.
Hey, can you hear the sound of
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Hysteria?
N.C.
The subliminal mindfuck
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America.

Chorus: 0:31
C#
  Welcome to a new kind of tension
G#
  All across the alien
    D#
Nation, where everything
                    G#
Isn't meant to be okay.
0:41
C#
  Television dreams of tomorrow
G#
  We're not the ones who're meant to
    D#
Follow for that's enough to argue.

[Instrumental] = [Intro] (x2) 0:52

Verse 2: 0:57
N.C.
Well, maybe I'm the faggot
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America.
N.C.
I'm not a part of a redneck
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Agenda.
1:07
N.C.
Now ev'rybody, do the
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Propaganda,
N.C.
And sing along in the age of
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Paranoia.

[Chorus] 1:17 1:28

[Instrumental] = [Intro] (x4) 1:38

Solo: 1:49
C# | C# | G# | G#
D# | D# | G# | G#
C# | C# | G# | G#
D# | D#

[Instrumental] = [Intro] (x2) 2:06

Verse 3: 2:12
G#5       C#5
   Don't wanna be an
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American  idiot.
G#5    C#5
  One nation
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Controlled by the media.
2:17
G#5  C#5
  Information
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Age of     hysteria.
N.C.
It's going out to idiot America.

[Chorus] 2:22 2:32

Coda: 2:40
G#5 C#5 | F#5 C#5 G#5  - x3
G#5 C#5 | F#5 C#5 G#5!