Don't You (Forget About Me)

by Rich Boucher

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This cover was recorded for the Great Cover Song Challenge of 2017, a project founded and spearheaded by Worcester-based writer and performer Victor Infante. Participating artists were told what song they were assigned to cover only AFTER they signed up for the challenge.

I was assigned the track, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", of Breakfast Club and Simple Minds and 1985 fame. If you're old enough to recall it, you couldn't ESCAPE this song in its heyday. To say I was intimidated by this would be to PROFOUNDLY understate the matter.

I'm sentimental about the movie in which this song appears. I'm also fond of tearing things down.

Enjoy.

*Album Art photo by Christopher Windus.

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Lyrics:

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

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ooh woh

Don't you try and 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 call my name?

I say
(Lala la la lala la la)
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by

Written by Keith Forsey, Steve W. Schiff • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group

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released October 19, 2017
Arrangement, Sampling and Music by Rich Boucher.

Vocal by Rich Boucher.

Lyrics by Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff.

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Rich Boucher Albuquerque, New Mexico

Rich Boucher is a performance poet whose poems have appeared in Adobe Walls: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry, Fickle Muses, The Rag, The Malpais Review, Menagerie, Clutching at Straws, Shot Glass Journal, Sparkbright, The Mas Tequila Review, The Legendary and The Nervous Breakdown, among others. ... more