Songwriting Analysis: Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”

As a song out of the American Idiot story line, this one had a definitive mission: to paint the color of loneliness.  Of excruciating, everlasting loneliness.  And the resolve to keep going despite. Dramatic stuff, and Green Day pulls it off with gusto.  Observe these songwriting techniques here: Repetitive melodic figures applied …