Vera's face burnt as a memory of bedroom fun With a lighter 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 [CHORUS] 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 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 [CHORUS] 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 [CHORUS] 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