Graduation is nearing, dear friends, and if you’re looking for a good tune for your final days at the school, you’ve come to the right place.

We’ve taken the liberty of looking high and low for the graduation songs that’ll give you ALL. OF. THE. FEELS.

There’s obviously some classics in the mix:

I’ll be there for you, The Remembrants

More commonly known as, the F.R.I.E.N.D.S theme song. Because suuuuurely you want to tell your peers that you’ll be there for them even when the rain starts to pour and then your cohort will unite in a *clap clap clap clap*

Forever Young, Youth Team

Because something weird happens when we graduate and suddenly non-wrinkly skin and excuses to not be responsible seem fleeting and we’re entering the… *drum roll* REAL. WORLD. Maybe if you want to get hearts throbbing as well, One Direction has their own rendition.

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Green Day

Now, I know. It’s not ~original~ and all that but damnit, it’s a hella good graduation song. It’s something unpredictable but in the end it’s right, I hope you’ve had the time of your life.

And there’s some very nostalgic songs too…

Goodbye Song, The Bear in the Big Blue House

Have you ever heard such a tear-jerker? The moment when the handsome moon is looking down on cuddly bear? Goodbye, Goodbye, good friends, good bye. It seems like we’ve just begun, and suddenly we’re through! This one serves as an anthem to our generation.

You Get What You Give, The New Radicals

This 1998 banger is full of the motivational feels. The song is a fun mix of laughter about youthful events and the capacity to use your energy to do great things. You’ve got the music in you!

Closing Time, Semisonic

This one hits all the right notes – it’s emotional, just somber enough, just uplifting enough. It’s about the next stage, it’s about the people who got you where you are – an overall winner.

Songs that are going to make you shake your bum:

Celebrate, (Kool & The Gang)

If ever a song has pulled grins ear to ear and pulled everyone’s hands into a happy clap, it is this one. You’re ceeeeeelebrating the good times, c’mon!

Everybody’s free, Rozalla

It feels good!

Back Home, Andy Grammar

The lyrics of this one hits you right in the feels. No matter which direction everyone in your cohort is going in, you’ll always know how to make your way back home. This moment, right now, is everything you’ve worked for, and this now becomes your base. Spread your wings, and as the song directs, raise your glass!

Looking for something more pop-culture?

The Climb, Miley Cyrus.

Life’s a climb, but the view’s great! You heard it straight from the mouth of the dual-personality icon of our Saturday Disney TV screens.

Firework, Katy Perry.

A celebration of all things

Looking for the graduation song that glorifies the triumph of surviving High School?

We are the champions, QUEEN.

Does. it. get. better. than. this?

No. It doesn’t.

If you have any more great graduation song suggestions let us know over here!