A5 Vera's face burnt as a memory of bedroom fun G5 With a lighter and some hairspray Smoking in the girls' room A5 Not worse than Shelley's rape behind the McDonald's G5 By a man she thought was fine, didn't tell anybody A5 Or maybe back then we just thought that she was getting some G5 Now we look back and see that she didn't know how A5 We never thought that we'd get caught up G5 Stuck in the teenage waste D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we explode A5 G5 Then getting drunk in the bushes by the road outside the Kmart A5 Rolling around in them to see if you would get prickled G5 Slip the acid on your tongue roof top mall parkade We couldn't get enough A5 Then count the stars and the ten million woes G5 Just you and the universe judging each other A5 We never knew that we'd get caught up G5 Stuck in the teenage waste D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we let go A5 It's a fight, it's a fight and you finally belong G5 Got a shiner now and it's more than a battle scar More than a battle scar, such a good, good story to tell A5 At lunch break, lunch break, lunch break, lunch break Such a good, good story to tell G5 You bully, you break, you bully, you break You fake, you fake, you fake, you fake A5 G5 You smoke, you toke, you want, you flaunt, you hit it and you're in it and it's spinning And it's wild A5 We never thought that we'd get caught up G5 Stuck in the teenage waste D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we explode D5 A5 G5 As we let go D5 We're counting the stars We're counting the stars A5 G5 We're gonna go far, we're gonna go far D5 We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars A5 G5 We're not very far, we're not very far D5 And it's you and me in the open air A5 G5 It's truth or dare, we don't care D5 We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars, A5 G5 D5 we're counting the stars, we're counting the stars