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 anyone   Or maybe back then we just throught that she was getting some   Now we looking 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 pricked   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 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      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 couting 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