Explode Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays572

Explode by Nelly Furtado is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante