7's Featured Music This Week

Green Day 

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Personally, I think 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day is an incredible song.

I'm a semi-fan of Green Day. I'm kind of picky-choosey about which songs I like. They have their bad ones, that's for sure. But the experience they've gained through the years has proven to be beneficial, as 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is a rather deep song. The instrumental aspect of their band hasn't really developed, unfortunately, but I could care less if you used 3 chords or 10 to play a song- if it touches my heart, that's all that matters.

I don't relate to this song in a general way, as I'm rarely physically alone. Some people might connect because they are still searching for their soul mate to walk next to them through life- but that's not me. My soul mate is already with me, and we've walked through quite a bit, side by side, over the last almost decade. But mentally, I'm usually pretty solitary. There's just not a whole lot of people out there like me. And if they are like me one way, they're missing the other half. Either they're mentally ill and alone- no spouse, no children; or they have a spouse and children and are 'crunchy' like me, but mentally intact. I deal with both. So very often I find I walk alone.

Caution- the "F" word is used in this song, but it has been garbled out. I feel it's safe for children to hear, as it kind of sounds like "fouled' the way they have it garbled.. but it's there, just so you know.

Lyrics:

I walk a lonely road
the only road 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 only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Til then I walk alone

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 F*ed up and everything's alright
check my vital signs
and know I'm still alive
and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a-

My shadow's only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Til then 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 a-

My shadow's only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Til then I walk alone