Explode

Nelly Furtado

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