Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Green Day

Meaning

What this song really means is that the narrator is depressed due to his failures, and he wants someone to break him out of this. It is a song I can relate to. This song describes Jesus of Suburbia's state of mind while he is leaving his home town.

Armstrong called Boulevard the 'hangover' song, and that's pretty much what it is.
Coming after Holiday this song describes the feeling of loneliness that Jesus of Suburbia has to face after the party is over. After finally breaking free and entering the City.

'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' has a sole meaning of where you walk alone and you think where all of your dreams are broke into pieces. And that's what the song is pretty much about. It sounds depressing and it is.

Walking a lonely road is not only a one-time realization of your loneliness. Going through life on your own you get so used to the solitude that this lonely road becomes your home, and your actual life.

Lyrics

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
Of 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
'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...
Play with the song, fill the gaps
blackboard
Legend
  • The video player plays from the time specified
  • Chorus
  • People Talking

Vocabulary

shallow

figurative (superficial)
She's a shallow person who cares only about how much money she earns.

fucked up

something that's messed up, or something that didn't go right
That's really fucked up!