My Song Choice and its Lyrics

I am currently waiting for a reply from Warner Music Group, however if they get back to me and there is no copyright issues, the song I would choose to appear in my final project/music video is a song that I have previously analysed - Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. However I have tried several times to contact Warner Music Group and various people it employs.

Looking at the exam boards requirements, it states that there is no need to obtain permission as long as the student has tried to get in contact with the music company. I originally E-mailed the man who sent me the link to the request form on the 9th of October and instantly got a reply.

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"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"

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...

 

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Brief History of the Band

• Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt
• Their big breakthrough happened between the years of 1994 when the producer of Reprise Records (Rob Cavello) signed them on, and soon after their debut album 'Dookie' was released, 3 of the songs that featured on it instantly went to #1 
• They are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide
• The group has won five Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Album for 'Dookie', Best Rock Album for 'American Idiot', Record of the Year for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and Best Rock Album for '21st Century Breakdown'

Awards

• The band has won a total of 94 awards whilst being nominated for a total of 215 (lost out 121 times)
• Their first award was presented in 1994
• They've won every award they have ever been nominated for at the California Music awards (18 times)
• The majority of the awards they have won have been won by the group as a whole for their performance, instead of individual songwriters, etc.