Very easy song to play, try stumming only downbeats on the first
two verses for the effect in the song.
The whole song is Am to Em except for the chorus
Explode by Nelly Furtado
Am
Vera's face burnt as a memory of bedroom fun
Em
With a lighter and some hairspray
Em
Smoking in the girls' room
Am
Not worse than Shelley's rape behind the McDonald's
Em
By a man she thought was fine, didn't tell anybody
Am
Or maybe back then we just thought that she was getting some
Em
Now we look back and see that she didn't know how
Am
We never thought that we'd get caught up
Em
Stuck in the teenage waste
Dm...Dm...Am...G...
As we explode
x2
(Same chords as first two verses)
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 shopping mall parkade
We couldn't get enough
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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
Chorus:
Dm...Dm...Am...G...
As we explode
As we explode “ “ “
As we explode “ “ “
As we let go “ “ “
(more Am to Em)
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
CHORUS
(and more Am to Em)
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
