1. 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

R: As we explode

As we explode

2. 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

R: As we explode

As we explode

As we explode

As we let go

3. 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

R: As we explode

As we explode

As we explode

As we let go

4. 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