Includes lyrics from:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Wonderwall - Oasis
Writing to Reach You - Travis
Sing for the Moment - Eminem

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me and I walk alone
(Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you)

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
(By now you shoulda somehow
Realised what you gotta do)

I walk alone, I walk alone
(I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now)
I walk alone, I walk ah..

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

Everyday I wake up and it's Sunday
Whatever's in my eye won't go away
The radio is playing all the usual
What's a wonderwall anyway?

Backbeat the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the borderline of the edge
And where I walk alone
(Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you)
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
No, I'm still alive and I walk alone

(Today is gonna be the day that
they're gonna throw it back to you)
I walk alone, I walk alone
(By now you shoulda somehow
realised what you gotta do)
I walk alone, I walk ah..

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
All the lights that lead us there are blinding
There many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
(Today is gonna be the day that
They're gonna throw it back to you)
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
(And by now you shoulda somehow
Realised what you gotta do)
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

(..cos maybe)My shadow's the only one
That walks beside me(You're gonna be the one that saves me)
My shallow heart's the only(You're gonna be the one that saves me)
Thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish
Someone out there will find me(You're gonna be the one that saves me)
Til then I walk alone

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me,just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away



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    General Comment

    This isn't by the Legion of Doom

    JohnnyJackaloneon March 19, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    you're right its by a dj... i stilll love this song...

    pirate176on February 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    great mix but i think its the original at the end.

    FYKxG3N0C1D3on May 18, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    The DJ that made the song didn't have the original Aerosmith song on hand, and he was coming up to his deadline, so he took the sample from "Sing For The Moment" by Eminem.
    Afterwards, he edited out the sample from "Sing For The Moment" and switched it to the original.

    Polygraphon May 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    The DJ that made the song didn't have the original Aerosmith song on hand, and he was coming up to his deadline, so he took the sample from "Sing For The Moment" by Eminem.
    Afterwards, he edited out the sample from "Sing For The Moment" and switched it to the original.

    Polygraphon May 25, 2010   Link

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