Back to School- The End (or the High School Reunion Song)

Anybody who's graduated or listened to the radio in the back half of the 90s has heard that Vitamin C song. (If you can't tell which of the worldwide smash hits during her long and notable career I'm talking about, it's  "Graduation".) Although my high school experience was likely a bit different from hers, they played her song at my own high school graduation and it always made me think, but I never quite knew why. Now I do...the song, while a nice look at what "taking the next step in one's life" SHOULD be, bears little resistance to the reality I've encountered in my 6-ish years out of high school. So, I decided to write a more realistic version of the song...hopefully I get lucky and it gets played at every high school reunion ever in the future of mankind much like the original is now the inseparable anthem of graduations everywhere...so here it is, "After Graduation (Friends on Facebook)":

And so we went through school thinking this was our lives

it was 12 long years, but somehow we survived 

spent the last 4 in some pointless classes

now daycare for teens put us out on our asses

No Child Left Behind doesn't fly as adults

if you just failed to launch, there's no catapult

been so long since we walked down that aisle

a few stopped right there, but others went miles

the paths our lives have taken never cease to amaze me

some of us went as planned, others just went crazy

and if you got something to get off your chest

better do it now, who knows when we'll meet next

and I always flash back to that day in June

we said we couldn't wait, but it came too soon

well, a bit too soon for some of us at least

it's sad when high school is when your life peaks...

ain't that about a bitch?

As we go on

we can't forget

most of high school

was pure bullshit

and as our lives changed

different paths we took

but we can still be

friends on Facebook...

They said we had potential, could go past the block

but not all of us got to be astronauts...

Admit you thought that things would never change

but now what's a surprise is how little stayed the same

some got jobs, some of us did bids

and some of us just used all the time to have kids

can't help but find it ironic where our lives are at

the star baller slings fries and wears a paper hat
some high school things fade and they get gone soon

The prom queen now goes "moo" and jumps over the moon

she was a stuck up bitch, how now brown cow?

but the girl she made fun of is a model somehow

the geeks all got rich and therefore cool

and the guy who got the girls now gets all the dudes

church girl thumped the bible, now she's working the pole

crazy how people act, but they end up switching roles

ain't that about a bitch?

(chorus)

la la la la

yeah yeah yeah

la la la la

we can still be friends on Facebook 

Some of us wish for the past cuz our lives suck now

We survived high school

but fucked it up somehow

I guess we thought we'd always be okay

but real life hit since graduation day

some of us found hills for our lives to go down

 a lot of shit changed since we left this town...

told us at graduation the limit was the sky

a few years later, for most of us that's a lie

ain't that about a bitch?

(repeat chorus 3x)

 Thanks for hanging with this series, umf'ers...it's been great. Class dismissed!