Vera's face burnt as a memory of 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 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