Grad song help!

[smartypants]

So, my grade 12 year.. i'm on the grad committee and have volunteered to do music for things. There's this one video we're showing.. it's our grad picture.. and a baby picture... and it's of everyone in the graduating class.... so it's meant for the parents mainyl.. so i need songs to go with it... i'm thinking like.. make you mom go awww and cry songs.... somethign like that.. but that's still graduation apparopriate... any help would be greatly appreciated! (Trying to stay away fomr time of your life and graduation song) if it's any help.. our grad song is our lives by the calling

thank you sooo much

[Kuky]

Hehe how about that song that goes "Hello Dad... I'm In Jail!! Jail!!!" =) jk

[Burro]

Hello mudda. Hello fadda. Here I am in. Camp Kranada.

:D

[Lone_Raider]

Semisonic - closing time

That song would be brilliant for anything to do with graduation. Some of the lyrics are "closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end" ;) They didn't play it at any of my High School's graduation events but the last thing I listened to before I walked out the door to go to my ceremony was that song :mrgreen:

It's also sort of slow and could be sad coupled with the right imagery. Listen to it, you'll like it. Well I did, but I'm also a product of the 90's alternative movement so it fits into that category lol.

Edit: Here are all the lyrics in fact

Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world.
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time - you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from.
Closing time - this room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters come.
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope you have found a

friend.
Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Yeah, I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from...

I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...

[chiukit]

graduation song.. vitamin c.
played in my grade nine grad and grade 12 grad.

[Kuky]

Ah good, I was beginning to feel bad that the only replies might be joke ones cause of me hehe. Still, you gotta admit it would be pretty sweet/funny to play "I'm in JAIL"

[kuju]

hey kuks... wasn't that song in the movie Pump up the Volume? damn that movie rocked.

I have no suggestions... but Closing Time is an awesome song, and very apropos.

[SweetiePie]

some of our songs were.... "in my life"by the beatles, "with a little help from my friends"by joe crocker (theme of the Wonder Years) *shrugs*

[Rainbow Brite]

I've had 'there goes my life' by kenny chesney stuck in my head all day for some odd reason...might work for your project. good luck

[wowzers]

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - lyrics (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greenday/goodriddancetimeofyourlife.html)
Brand New - SoCo Amaretto Lime - lyrics (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Soco-Amaretto-Lime-lyrics-Brand-New/FD8FED680FE1351248256C05001323A5)
Mest - Jaded - lyrics (http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/m/mest/jaded_these_years.htm)

[Sydney123456]

I Remember You (cover) - The Ataris

I used this song on a slideshow I did, and even though it's a love song...it gets the point across and I like it a lot. :)

[Kuky]

Originally posted by kuju@May 31 2005, 10:17 PM
hey kuks... wasn't that song in the movie Pump up the Volume? damn that movie rocked.
That's exactly where I first heard it :). I recently ordered that DVD, too. One of the best movies you'll ever see. I think every high school student should watch it after the first couple years (so they can actually relate a bit).

[Anthropolemic]

I Disappear by Metallica. Sadly, not my graduation song, but I would have found it fitting.

[Lone_Raider]

Originally posted by Anthropolemic@Jun 1 2005, 04:31 PM
I Disappear by Metallica. Sadly, not my graduation song, but I would have found it fitting.
You know what, parents of kids who are 17 or 18 now might have been young enough to have been Metallica fans back in the early 80's so that might actually work, and they might actually like it. Kids my age had parents who fought in Vietnam or were teens in the late 60's early 70's. Metallica didn't go over well with our parents needless to say, but it might go over with these younger parents.

[Asphodelle13]

'In My Life' by The Beatles is a lovely song, very touching. The lyrics are fitting, as well. Especially when directed towards the parents. Awww. :P

There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

[BlondTgr]

Originally posted by Rainbow Brite@May 31 2005, 09:08 PM
I've had 'there goes my life' by kenny chesney stuck in my head all day for some odd reason...might work for your project. good luck
Okay, bear with me 'cause I don't know anything about country...but I was flipping through the channels and stopped on CMT...is that the one with the video of the girl growing up and the parents, namely the dad getting all emotional? Because I saw that when I had pneumonia and started crying...sweet lyrics. I hate country though.

Anyway...I can't really think of much that hasn't been touched on...I really like Closing Time though, it would work well!

[Cashew]

Originally posted by Asphodelle13@Jun 1 2005, 10:39 PM
'In My Life' by The Beatles is a lovely song, very touching. The lyrics are fitting, as well. Especially when directed towards the parents. Awww. :P

There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
You know what?

I know that song very well. When I graduated, my best friend and I sang the solo for that song with my vocal jazz group.

VERY good grad song.

[Crushed]

That song about the highschool reunion they used to play on the radio still gives me nightmares.

Ooh yeah, very descriptive, I know. ^_~

[dashboard]

I recommend ending it with the Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World medley by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. It's beginning to be overused for the purpose you're looking for but it still pulls at my heart every time I hear it.

[sweet-one]

I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
Don't Go Away - Oasis