Boulevard

"Boulevard" é uma canção escrita e interpretada pelo cantor-compositor americano Jackson Browne. Ela é do seu álbum de 1980 Hold Out. Quando foi lançada como single, entrou na parada Billboard Hot 100 na posição número 72 em 5 de julho de 1980. Alcançou a posição número 19 e permaneceu 16 semanas na parada, o quinto maior sucesso da carreira Top 40 de Browne. Além dos Estados Unidos, a canção também foi lançada como single na Espanha, Japão, Reino Unido, Itália e Alemanha. No Canadá, "Boulevard" alcançou a posição número quatro. Origin Browne disse em uma entrevista de rádio: "It's about runaways, and, you know... as sort of a bystander, it's about Hollywood Boulevard. I used to live right above Hollywood Boulevard, and there's a place called The Gold Cup and there's a lot of runaway kids and there's a lot of teen prostitution around there. It was partly written from the point of view of a young person on that street, yet it's not really immersed in that. You're sort of, maybe, empathizing with them to some degree, and also trying to say 'it's only time.' It's time on the boulevard, but this doesn't mean this is who you are and where you'll always be, I guess was what I was trying to say..." The hearts are hard and the times are tough. Down on the boulevard, the night's enough. And time passes slow, Between the store front shadows and the street lights glow. Everybody walks right by like they're safe or something ... They don't know —