Don’t wanna be an American idiot
Don’t want a nation under the new media
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 who’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue
Well maybe I’m the (dedacted) 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
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 want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It’s going out to idiot 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 who’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue
I’m the son of rage and love
The Jesus of Suburbia
The bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of
Soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with
And there’s nothing wrong with me
This is how I’m supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don’t believe in me
Get my television fix
Sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the Mom’s and Brad’s are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes
And Mary Jane to keep me insane
Doing someone else’s cocaine
And there’s nothing wrong with me
This is how I’m supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don’t believe in me
At the center of the Earth in the parking lot
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is, but what a shame
‘Cause everyone’s heart doesn’t beat the same
It’s beating out of time
City of the dead (Hey, hey)
At the end of another lost highway (Hey, hey)
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned (Hey, hey)
Lost children with dirty faces today (Hey, hey)
No one really seems to care
I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn’t say much but it only confirmed that
The center of the earth is the end of the world
And I could really care less
City of the dead (Hey, hey)
At the end of another lost highway (Hey, hey)
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned (Hey, hey)
Lost children with dirty faces today (Hey, hey)
No one really seems to care (Hey)
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care
Everyone is so full of shit
Born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples of
The Jesus of Suburbia
Land of make believe
And it don’t believe in me
Land of make believe
And it don’t believe
And I don’t care! (Uh, uh, uh)
I don’t care! (Uh, uh, uh)
I don’t care! (Uh, uh, uh)
I don’t care! (Uh, uh, uh)
I don’t care!
Dearly beloved, are you listening?
I can’t remember a word that you were saying…
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that’s in between insane and insecure
Uuh
Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I (redacted) or am I just overjoyed?
Nobody’s perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that’s my best excuse
Uuh
To live and not to breathe
Is to die in tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this
This town that don’t exist
So I run, I run away
To the lights of masochists
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time!
I don’t feel any shame, I won’t apologize
When there ain’t nowhere you can go
Running away from pain when you’ve been victimized
Tales from another broken home
(Hoooommmee)
You’re leaving…
You’re leaving…
You’re leaving…
Ah, you’re leaving home…
Say hey!
Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey)
The shame, the ones who died without a name
Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called “Faith and Misery” (Hey)
And bleed, the company lost the war today
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday
Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (Hey)
To find the money’s on the other side
Can I get another amen? (Amen)
There’s a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday
Hey
Three, four
The representative from California has the floor
“Sieg Heil” to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
“Bang, bang” goes the broken glass and
Kill all the (redacted) that don’t agree
Try to fight fire, setting fire
Is not a way that’s meant for me
Just cause (Hey, hey, hey, hey…)
Just cause, because we’re outlaws, yeah
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
This is our lives on holiday
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one, and I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk a-
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
I’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the borderline
Of the edge, and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What’s fucked up, and everything’s alright
Check my vital signs
To know I’m still alive, and I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk a-
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
I walk alone, I walk a-
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one, and I walk a-
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone
Starry nights city lights
Coming down over me
Skyscrapers, stargazers in my head
Are we we are, are we we are
The waiting unknown
This dirty town was burning down in my dreams
Lost and found, city bound in my dreams
And screaming
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
Forget me nots, second thoughts live in isolation
Heads or tails and fairy tales in my mind
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting unknown
The rage and love, the story of my life
The Jesus of suburbia is a lie
And screaming
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
And screaming
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
Are we we are, are we we are the waiting
St. Jimmy is coming down across the alleyway
Up on the boulevard, like a zip gun on parade
Lights of a silhouette, he’s insubordinate
Coming at you on the count of one, two
One, two, three, four
My name is Jimmy and you better not wear it out
Suicide commando that your momma talked about
King of the forty thieves I’m here to represent
That needle in the vein of the establishment
I’m the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal
Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope
I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allen Poe
Raised in the city in a halo of lights
Product of war and fear that we’ve been victimized
I’m the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal
Are you talking to me?
I’ll give you something to cry about
St. Jimmy
My name is St. Jimmy, I’m a son of a gun
I’m the one that’s from the way outside
I’m a teenage assassin executing some fun
In the cult of the life of crime
I really hate to say it but I told you so
So shut your mouth before I shoot you down old boy
Welcome to the club and give me some blood
I’m the resident leader at the lost and found
It’s comedy and tragedy
It’s St. Jimmy and that’s my name
And don’t wear it out
Take away the sensation inside
Bittersweet migraine in my head
It’s like a throbbing toothache of the mind
I can’t take this feeling anymore
Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation’s overwhelming
Give me a long kiss goodnight
And everything will be alright
Tell me that I won’t feel a thing
So give me Novacaine
Out of body and out of mind
Kiss the demons out of my dreams
I get the funny feeling and that’s alright
Jimmy says it’s better than here
I tell you what
Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation’s overwhelming
Give me a long kiss goodnight
And everything will be alright
Tell me that I won’t feel a thing
So give me Novacaine
Oh Novacaine
Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation’s overwhelming
Give me a long kiss goodnight
And everything will be alright
Tell me Jimmy, I won’t feel a thing
So give me Novacaine
She’s a rebel, she’s a saint
She’s the salt of the earth and she’s dangerous
She’s a rebel vigilante
Missing link on the brink of destruction
From Chicago to Toronto
She’s the one that they call old Whatsername
She’s a symbol of resistance
And she’s holding on my heart like a hand grenade
Is she dreaming what I’m thinking?
Is she the mother of all bombs, gonna detonate?
Is she trouble like I’m trouble?
Make it a double twist of fate or a melody
That she sings the revolution
The dawning of our lives
She brings this liberation
That I just can’t define
Well, nothing comes to mind
Hey!
She sings the revolution
The dawning of our lives
She brings this liberation
That I just can’t define
Well, nothing comes to mind
She’s a rebel, she’s a saint
She’s the salt of the earth and she’s dangerous
She’s a rebel vigilante
Missing link on the brink of destruction
She’s a rebel, she’s a saint
She’s the salt of the earth and she’s dangerous
She’s a rebel vigilante
Missing link on the brink of destruction
She’s a rebel
She’s a rebel
She’s a rebel
And she’s dangerous
She’s a rebel
She’s a rebel
She’s a rebel
And she’s dangerous
She’s an extraordinary girl
In an ordinary world
And she can’t seem to get away
He lacks the courage in his mind
Like a child left behind
Like a pet left in the rain
She’s all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She sees the mirror of herself
And image she wants to sell
To anyone willing to buy
He steals the image in her kiss
From her hearts apocalypse
From the one called what’s her name
She’s all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days she feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She’s all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days she feels like dying
Some days she’s not worth trying
Now that they’re both up on it
She gets so sick of crying
She’s an extraordinary girl
An extraordinary girl
An extraordinary girl
An extraordinary girl
Nobody likes you
Everyone left you
They’re all out without you
Having fun
Where have all the bastards gone?
The underbelly stacks up ten high
The dummy failed the crash test
Collecting unemployment checks
Like a flunkie along for the ride
Where have all the riots gone?
As your city’s motto gets pulverized
What’s in love is now in debt
On your birth certificate
So strike the fucking match to light this fuse
The town bishop is an extortionist
And he don’t even know that you exist
Standing still when it’s do or die
You better run for your fucking life
It’s not over ’till you’re underground
It’s not over before it’s too late
This city’s burnin’
It’s not my burden
It’s not over before it’s too late
There’s nothing left to analyze
Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself?
And where will we all go when it’s too late?
And don’t look back
You’re not the Jesus of Suburbia
The St. Jimmy is a figment of
Your father’s rage and your mother’s love
Made me the idiot America
It’s not over ’till you’re underground
It’s not over before it’s too late
This city’s burnin’
It’s not my burden
It’s not over before it’s too late
She said, I can’t take this place
I’m leaving it behind
Well she said, I can’t take this town
I’m leaving you tonight
My heart is beating from me
I am standing all alone
Please call me only if you are coming home
Waste another year flies by
Waste a night or two
You taught me how to live
In the streets of shame
Where you’ve lost your dreams in the rain
There’s no signs of hope
The stems and seeds of the last of the dope
There’s a glow of light
The Saint Jimmy is the spark in the night
Bearing gifts and trust
The fixture in the city of lust
What the hells your name?
What’s your pleasure and what is your pain?
Do you dream too much?
Do you think what you need is a crutch?
In the crowd of pain
Saint Jimmy comes without any shame
He says, “We’re fucked up”
But we’re not the same
And mom and dad are the ones you can blame
Jimmy died today
He blew his brains out into the bay
In the states of mind
It’s my own private suicide
Well, nobody cares
Well, nobody cares
Does anyone care if nobody cares?
Well, nobody cares
Well, nobody cares
Does anyone care if nobody cares?
Jesus filling out paperwork now
At the facility on East 12th Street
He’s not listening to a word now
He’s in his own world and he’s daydreaming
He’d rather be doing something else now
Like cigarettes and coffee with the underbelly
His life’s on the line with anxiety now
‘Cause she had enough and he had plenty
Somebody get me out of here
Anybody get me out of here
Somebody get me out of here
Get me the fuck right out of here
So far away, I don’t want to stay
Get me outta here right now
I just want to be free, is there a possibility?
Get me out of here right now
Right
This life like dream ain’t for me
I fell asleep while watching Spike TV
After ten cups of coffee and you’re still not here
Dreaming of a song, but something went wrong
And you can’t tell anyone, ’cause no one’s here
Left me here alone and I should’ve stayed home
After ten cups of coffee, I’m thinking
Nobody likes you, everyone left you
(Where’d you go?) They’re all out without you, havin’ fun
(Where’d you go?) Everyone left you, nobody likes you
(Where’d you go?) They’re all out without you, havin’ fun
(Where’d you go, go, go, go?)
Jeez, ha
I got a rock ‘n’ roll band
I got a rock ‘n’ roll life
I got a rock ‘n’ roll girlfriend
And another ex-wife
I got a rock ‘n’ roll house
I got a rock ‘n’ roll car
I play the shit out the drums
And I can play the guitar
I got a kid in New York
I got a kid in the Bay
I haven’t drank or smoked nothin’ in over 22 days
So get off my case, off of my case
Off of my case
Hey
Here they come marching down the street
Like a desperation murmur of a heart beat
Coming back from the edge of town
Underneath their feets
The time has come and it’s going nowhere
Nobody ever said that life was fair now
Go-carts and guns are treasures they will bear
In the summer heat
The world is spinning around and ’round out of control again
The 7-11 to the fear of breaking down
So send my love a letterbomb, and visit me in Hell
We’re the ones going
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
I started fucking running
As soon as my feet touch ground
We’re back in the barrio
And to you and me, that’s Jingle Town, that’s
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Home
We’re coming home again
Nobody likes you
Everyone left you
They’re all out without you
Havin’ fun
Thought I ran into you down on the street
Then it turned out to only be a dream
I made a point to burn all of the photographs
She went away, and then I took a different path
I remember the face, but I can’t recall the name
Now I wonder how what’s her name has been
Seems that she disappeared without a trace
Did she ever marry old what’s his face?
I made a point to burn all of the photographs
She went away, and then I took a different path
I remember the face, but I can’t recall the name
Now I wonder how what’s her name has been
Remember
Whatever
It seems like forever ago
Remember
Whatever
It seems like forever ago
The regrets
Are useless in my mind
She’s in my head
I must confess
The regrets
Are useless in my mind
She’s in my head
From so long ago
Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go, go
And in the darkest night
If my memory serves me right
I’ll never turn back time
Forgetting you but not the time