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Album: Folklore (2003)
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  • Peso..Joga..Ginga..Hoda

    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 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

    As we explode
    As we explode
    As we explode
    As we let go

    Peso..Hoda..Ginga..Joda

    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 Writer/s: GERALD EATON, NELLY FURTADO
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnThis is Nelly Furtado's best song ever! The lyrics, the way she sings it, the music - it all works! Emotional and intense song.
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