Yet more raving about American Idiot

[gridlore]

I am seriously loving this albuim.

One song that really speaks to me, that I really identify with, is Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which y'all might have heard on the radio.


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 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...

This so describes how I've spent most of my life, even when surrounded by friends and loved one, I walk alone.

Comments

Forgive me, but...

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because I haven't actually listened to it, but reading the lyrics?
I don't really see anything new here. :/

Re: Forgive me, but...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The entire album is a concept piuece, much like Quadrophenia was. Taken as a whole, it's a powerful piece. This song in particular, the way it's arriagned, really hits home.