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Graduation Day Lyrics
Driving slowly
Watching the headlights in the rain
Funny how things change
Think of the good times
Wishing you were still with me
The way it used to be
Graduation day
Watching the stars fall
A million dreams have all gone bad
Think of all we had
I knew it all then
I thought you loved me, I was wrong
Life goes on
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
Thinking of a time when everything was right
Thinking of a time with only you and I
Makes me sorry that it had to end that way
Learned my lesson now there's nothing left to say
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
Thinking of a time when everything was right
Thinking of a time with only you and I
Makes me sorry that it had to end that way
Learned my lesson now there's nothing left to say
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
Watching the headlights in the rain
Funny how things change
Think of the good times
Wishing you were still with me
The way it used to be
Graduation day
A million dreams have all gone bad
Think of all we had
I knew it all then
I thought you loved me, I was wrong
Life goes on
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
Thinking of a time with only you and I
Makes me sorry that it had to end that way
Learned my lesson now there's nothing left to say
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
Thinking of a time with only you and I
Makes me sorry that it had to end that way
Learned my lesson now there's nothing left to say
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day, oh
Graduation day
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the perfect song for a long drive on a rainy day.
Easily a song about a bad breakup. He's lamenting on what was and what might have been. The "Graduation Day" refers to the fact that he's moving on from their relationship.
What happens at a graduation? People move on. HS graduates go on to college, college graduates go on to the work force, people distances themselves from what and wherever their previous life was.
That's what's happening here. He's "graduating" from the life he had with the person the song's about and moving on. However, like at a real graduation, you still think of the previous good times you had which is where he is right now. At the crossroad between the broken up relationship and moving on to something (or someone) new.
To add on (forgot to put this on my original), the line
"I thought you loved me I was wrong"
is also a reference to his "graduating". Upon a graduation from anything, the graduate is more educated then when they started. To me, this is a pretty obvious reference to her cheating on him, him finding out she was a gold digger, something along those lines.
He has found this out and now is more educated on what kind of person he is so he can now "graduate" from the relationship (leave her and move on).
I took it more literally, I thought it was about a pair of high school sweethearts who graduate and go to university and split up. made me very sad