Vera's face burnt as a memory o
f bedroom fun
With a ligther and some hairspray
Smoking in the girls' room
Not worse than Shelley's rape
behind the McDonald's
By a man she thought was fine,
didn't tell anybody
Or maybe back then we just thought
that she was getting some
Now we look back and see that
she didn't know how
We never thought that we'd get
caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
Then getting drunk in the bushes
by the road outside the Kmart
Rolling around in them to see
if you would get prickled
Slip the acid on your tongue rooftop
shopping mall parkade
We couldn't get enough
Then count the stars and the ten million
woes
Just you and the universe judging
each other
We never knew that we'd get caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
As we let go
It's a fight, it's a fight and
you finally belong
Got a shiner now and it's more
than a battle scar
More than a battle scar, such a good,
good story to tell
At lunch break, lunch break, lunch break,
lunch break
Such a good, good story to tell
You bully, you break, you bully, you break
You fake, you fake, you fake, you fake
You smoke, you toke, you want, you flaunt,
you hit it and you're in it and it's spinning
And it's wild
We never thought that we'd get caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
As we let go
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars
We're gonna go far, we're gonna go far
We're counting the stars, we're counting
the stars
We're not very far, we're not very far
And it's you and me in the open air
It's truth or dare, we don't care
We're counting the stars,
we're counting the stars,
we're counting the stars,
we're counting the stars