farewell songs

The lyrics are fantastic- rewritten by Bel

Unwritten

Year 12 is leaving, we know you're sad, but it's not that bad
We're just beginning, a life on our own, ending unknown.

Staring at the blank page before us
Looking at the gates behind us
Let the journey start and see where we can end up going

Reaching for freedom in the distance
So close we can almost taste it
Release our inhibitions

Feel the rain on our skin
No one else can steal this feeling
Only year 12's gone today
No one else! no one else!
Can say goodbye to this school
Good bye teachers good bye ribbons
BMW's, We won't miss them
Today is where our book begins
The rest is still unwritten

We break tradition, sometimes our tights, have holes in the sides
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but we can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before us
Open up the door to Blue Gum
Let the drinks illuminate the words that school would not find

Reaching for freedom in the distance
So close we can almost taste it
Release our inhibitions

Feel the rain on our skin
No one else can steal this feeling
Only year 12's gone today
No one else, no one else
Can say goodbye to this school
Good bye teachers good bye ribbons
BMW's, We won't miss them
Today is where our book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can steal this feeling
Only year 12's gone today
No one else, no one else
Can say goodbye to this school
Good bye teachers good bye ribbons
BMWs, We won't miss them
Today is where our book begins
The rest is still unwritten

*

Time of your life

Another turning point;
a "journey" down the road

School grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.

It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang them on a shelf
remember the good times

We've grown up so much
We've faced the tears and trials

But in the end
we'll be leaving with a smile

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

(music break)

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

*

And the Year 11 wrote this song for us:

American Pie

A long long time ago, the teachers still remember
When you girls first started school that day
You came to school with your mum and dad
And may have looked a little sad
But soon you were all happy for a while
But year nine, it turned you bitter
With all the makeup it delivered
Bad news on your doorstep
You weren't allowed one more step
So the corridor it screamed us deaf...
While we took one last withered breath
coz something touched us deep like death
the day the year 12's left...

so...Bye, bye Year 12 good bye...
drove our Chevy to the esky but the esky was dry
them good ol' yr 12's were drinking Smirnoff and sky,
Singing you cannot expel us but try,
Coz we're off to better things so good bye...

Did you write the book of sin,
Cos those yellow slips sure made us grin ...if u gave them out enough.
And do you believe in aiming high,
For a car or perfect UAI,
And can you teach us how to like Kelleher...
Coz we know that you're in love with him
Coz we saw you dancing in the gym,
You all kicked off your shoes...
And we dig those rhythm and blues.
You are all lonely teenage drunkin bucks,
with messy hair and your shirts untucked...
So Mrs Poole's just got some luck, the day the Yr 12's left...
We started singing......

so...Bye, bye Year 12 good bye...
drove our Chevy to the esky but the esky was dry
them good ol' yr 12's were drinking Smirnoff and sky,
Singing you cannot expel us but try,
Coz we're off to better things so good bye...

Now in a few months we'll been on our own
while you're all out getting stoned,
and we all know that's how schoolie's should be.
And while you're there watch head girl,
and the prefects that they behave themselves,
after all you're all ambassadors for our school...

Don't forget you went to Abbotsleigh,
Which was everything with high prestige,
Who cares about what you've learned,
You can watch those study notes burn.
But with all the journeys you embark,
make decisions from your heart,
Cos this is just the very start,
The day that you all leave...

Bye bye Year 12 girls goodbye
You have finished school forever
You have made it alright
The friendships you've made are strong and will never die
Singin' this here is your day, do not cry
This here is your day, so don't cry!

(we were all crying by the time they finished singing =P)