Graduation songs for adults?

• What are some good songs for a graduation mix? This is for twenty-and-thirty-somethings. I'm graduating from a grad program next week and would like to make a mix CD for my good friends. I got this idea listening to the song "Better Thingss" as covered by Dar Williams. A lot of my friends are nervous about being spit back into the big, bad world, and I would like to give them a CD full of songs about starting a new phase of life and the exciting adventures ahead. Other songs I thought of were "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac and "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips. Most of my friends are in their late twenties to early thirties, so songs about becoming an adult (such as "Wild World") aren't as relevant as they would be for graduating seniors. Thoughts?

• Answer:

  ok, these songs aren't exactly about graduation, but they're good songs, and that's important, right? The Long and Winding Road- Beatles Across the Universe- Beatles Get Back- Beatles Changes- Bowie Change Clothes- Jay-Z My first song- Jay-Z Into the Great Wide Open- Tom Petty Silver Jews- Advice to the Graduate The End of the World as We Know it- REM Major Leagues- Pavement Box Elder- Pavement 5 to 1- The Doors Youth Gone Wild- Skid Row Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam