Green Day - Holiday / Blvd. Of Broken Dreams (Demo) [Visualizer]

Available in 8 LP+2 Blu-Ray and 4 CD+2 Blu-Ray Super Deluxe Box Set. Features unreleased demos, rare b-sides, bonus songs and unreleased live tracks. Also features a brand new documentary: "20 Years of American Idiot", plus the documentary “Heart Like a Hand Grenade”, BBC Live & more!



LYRICS

Say hey!
Cha!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (hey!)
The shame, the ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today, and

Oh I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives (whoa, oh, whoa, oh)
On holiday!

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (hey!)
To find the money's on the other side

Can I get another amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

Oh I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives (whoa, oh, whoa, oh)
On holiday!

Hey!
Three, four!

The representative from California has the floor
"Sieg Heil" to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government

"Bang! Bang!" goes the broken glass, and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Try to fight fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me

Just 'cause (hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Just 'cause, because we're outlaws, yeah (hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

Oh I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives (whoa, oh, whoa, oh)
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives (whoa, oh, whoa, oh)
This is our lives on holiday!

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, ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

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 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, ah-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

#GreenDay #AmericanIdiot #HolidayBlvdOfBrokenDreams #20thAnniversary

[roberradke]

Please let there be a Whatsername demo, such an underrated masterpiece

[FenderFanboy]

Even the demos are good. Goes to show how good this band is and has been since 1988

[RockerLock]

I can't believe they got Day to finally collab with Green

[mattd]

2029 we need a 21 century Breakdown deluxe release like this and a tour where you play the whole album like this tour!!!

[KatieCampbell-jdnd]

So fascinating to hear what the album would’ve sounded like with different production!

[bannles]

My high school had played holiday at every football game for years and now it holds a very special place in my heart

[Robert_-pjkl]

Green Day just gave me an awesome birthday gift

[charlie_the_devil]

cannot wait for the full deluxe album. never been more excited for something (except maybe the saviors tour)

[NomarMendoza]

This is Billie Joe’s Warning vocals but he’s singing Holiday and Boulevard, this is the greatest unexpected gift I could have ever asked for 😭

[elite]

So interesting how the opening vocal lines in the chorus are Mike and Billie harmonizing on the vocals instead if it just being Billie on the vocals by himself

[JoseArturLimaLira-rgoj]

Tre's drums on the American Idiot era sounded PERFECT.

[BSKY]

funny how even the demo sounds incredible

[crazydoglover]

and just like that it is 20 years ago again....still as fresh as ever, Great demo

[Mr_Razdom_Man]

HOLIDAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITES! SO GLAD I GOT TO HEAR THE DEMO!

[bran_b]

Every day that Green Day releases music feels like Christmas!!!

[Raynori]

American Wasteland... Good times, nostalgia.

[kaitlyngault]

I still remember counting down the DAYS until American Idiot was released. The only songs released were the American Idiot video, along with a live version & one of Holiday on Yahoo or something. My, how times have changed. I wish I still had my special edition.

[natejanke]

It's amazing that after 20 years, these songs are still all over the radio.

[GDMod]

Early 2000s Billie voice is still present in the Demo with the Warning style of singing. The last we will ever hear of Casual Billie before his transformation into Rockstar Eyeliner Billie.

I am still obsessed with the gig on Toronto one week ago and then this demo 😭💜 Best time to be a Green Day fan.