While I was trying to get myself to sleep I was finishing up watching the Emma Stone film Easy A on cable when the song at the end brought back some major high school memories. This effect made me choose this song as the latest “Song of the Day”.

Simple Minds was one of the big new wave, pop rock bands of the 1980’s. They were especially big with the junior high and high school kids of the day. It’s not a big surprise really since one of their biggest hit became the unofficial anthems for many junior high and high school graduation classes. This song I speak of is “Don’t You Forget About Me” and it became really popular when John Hughes picked it to be the signature song for his teen drama, The Breakfast Club. I really got into this song in my senior year of high school which was six years after the song came out. It definitely fit my mental state at that time as it was the end of a phase in my life as my high school days gradually came to an end.

This is the song which always brings back both fond memories and even the ones which brought heartache, but in the end they were still things I would look back fondly on. Friends were made and some stayed with me even to this date while others have faded to just memories. I don’t know anyone who has grown up listening to this song who do not feel the same in some fashion. It’s a timeless tune which probably has made fans with teens of this generation and probably the next. All thanks must go to both Simple Minds and John Hughes for making this a timeless teen classic anthem.

Don’t You Forget About Me

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh…

Won’t you come see about me?
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love’s strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh…..

Don’t you try to pretend
It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end
I won’t harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I’ll put us back together at heart, baby

Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on – call my name
Will you all my name?

I say :
La la la…