American Idiot
The Presidential iPod Commission was a highly successful undertaking which received an overwhelming response. I would like to personally thank all individuals who contributed songs to this venture. I will continue to post politically astute song lyrics in this category. If the revolution had a soundtrack, this would be it.
American Idiot by Green Day
(from the album American Idiot, 2005 Grammy winner for Best Rock Album )
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck AmericaWelcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be O.K.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argueMaybe I am the faggot America
I'm not a part of some redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoiaWelcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be O.K.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argueDon't wanna be an American Idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to Idiot America
Agitprop recommends the entire American Idiot album. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong delivers a particularly biting message to President Bush in the bridge of Holiday.
That song reminds me of 'Franco-Unamerican' by No FX, which I suggested a while back. Great minds think alike.
Posted by: The Alchemist | April 30, 2005 at 05:00 AM