Explode

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 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 roof top 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