- "All the promises we made"
- "They're just stories now, they're all gone"
Assonance:
- "I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known"
Metaphor:
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (life is a journey, dreams are fragile and can be broken)
Personification:
- "The city sings to me, a symphony of sound" (the city is alive and has a voice)
Symbolism:
- The boulevard represents the journey of life
- The broken dreams represent the disappointments and failures that people experience along the way
Imagery:
- "The city's a blur, the lights are a blaze"
- "I'm looking for a place, where I can go to be alone" (these lines create a vivid picture of the city and the speaker's emotional state)