Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the Grammy Award winning fourth track from Green Day\'s seventh studio album, American Idiot. The song was written by Green Day, with lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, and was co-produced by Green Day and Rob Cavallo. It was released as the album\'s second single on November 29, 2004; the single peaked at number two in the United States.
The song speaks from the point of view of American Idiot\'s main character, Jesus of Suburbia, and is a moderate midtempo song characterized by moody and depressing lyrics. This is in contrast to the previous track on the album, Holiday, which illustrates Jesus of Suburbia\'s high of being in The City. MTV\'s Green Day Makes a Video described Holiday as a party, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams as the subsequent hangover.
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 \'Til 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 border line Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines What\'s ed 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 \'Til 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 \'Til then I walk alone