  We study holographically Lifshitz-scaling theories with broken symmetries. In
order to do this, we set up a bulk action with a complex scalar and a massless
vector on a background which consists in a Lifshitz metric and a massive
vector. We first study separately the complex scalar and the massless vector,
finding a similar pattern in the two-point functions that we can compute
analytically. By coupling the probe complex scalar to the background massive
vector we can construct probe actions that are more general than the usual
Klein--Gordon action. Some of these actions have Galilean boost symmetry.
Finally, in the presence of a symmetry breaking scalar profile in the bulk, we
reproduce the expected Ward identities of a Lifshitz-scaling theory with a
broken global continuous symmetry. In the spontaneous case, the latter imply
the presence of a gapless mode, the Goldstone boson, which will have dispersion
relations dictated by the Lifshitz scaling.
