Wave 2: Echoes track 06

College (Graduate Version)

The campus-era breakup is revisited from the other side of graduation, with more distance between the promises and what survived them.

College (Graduate Version) artwork from Wave 2: Echoes by ME & The Robots
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Track

College (Graduate Version) on Wave 2: Echoes.

Release date

16 Jun 2026

Duration

2:38

Lyrics

We kissed goodnight outside the AMC, said don't forget me You had a college letter in your hand And I still wore that Busted wristband

You pledged kappa, I played in a basement show Friday nights we were ghosts across the radio Late night calls turned to typing dots Then nothing at all, god we forgot

Will you be waiting back home when I'm a graduate? Or just leave town because you had to wait? We both wanted to leave no matter where we went Maybe we'd be together if we didn't go to college back then

I stole essays, I wrote songs You had labs, I just tagged along You studied Kafka, I studied your face But I guess we both needed that space

Now you're posting from some campus bar I'm playing shows still chasing a star We traded forever for GPA scores And now we're not us anymore

Cap toss, final class, walking past Where we promised things would last Snapbacks, scantrons, ramen at 2 AM Your hoodie still smells like September rain

If this was Euphoria, I'd beg to rewrite The scene where you leave on that early flight Will you be waiting back home when I'm a graduate? Maybe we'd be together if we didn't go to college back then

About this song

The campus-era breakup is revisited from the other side of graduation, with more distance between the promises and what survived them.

The Graduate Version keeps the original lyrics about ambition, distance, and GPA-shaped growing pains while making the ending feel like a look back after the cap toss.

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