“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” sees the album’s main character, the Jesus of Suburbia, aimlessly roaming the city’s streets with nothing to do and nowhere to go. After leaving his hometown and venturing into the city, Jesus has come down from his excitement to find that he’s surrounded by strangers, completely alone in an unfamiliar environment. The realization that he has no one pushes Jesus to his emotional breaking point and drives him to borderline insanity, as implied by the creation of St. Jimmy.

Selling over five-million copies as of September 1, 2009, it was Green Day’s most successful song on the Billboard charts, peaking at #2 on the Hot 100 list. It also won the Grammy Award for “Record of the Year” in 2006.