Starry Stairs

Starry Stairs Lyrics

Song Starry Stairs
Artist Okkervil River
Album The Stand Ins
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[00:17.26] They ask for more
[00:19.28] What do you think this fan club is for?
[00:23.83] I slithered up each rose corridor
[00:28.30] I kept a warm, safe place at my core
[00:32.74] Before I lost it
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[00:35.44] They ask for blood
[00:37.41] What do you think this woman's made of?
[00:41.77] I stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb
[00:46.28] They dreamt a low, long line to be crossed
[00:51.00] And I crossed it
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[00:53.33] I'm alive
[00:55.72] But a different kind of alive
[01:00.13] Than the way I used to be
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[01:06.76] I retire to a split, white smile to be seen
[01:13.13] In some old stag magazine
[01:19.78] And this girl's eyes,
[01:22.05] when they were roughly wrenched open
[01:26.29] I could see a starry stair up your thigh
[01:30.56] You hid behind your hair
[01:32.95] Oh, but I saw you smiling
[01:37.75] While all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes
[01:44.17] Safe behind a tv screen
[01:50.53] I let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry
[01:57.33] almost every piece of me
[02:01.32]
[02:07.24] If you don't love me, I'm sorry
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[02:27.45] Oh, what a trip
[02:30.02] Oh, what a shimmering silver ship
[02:34.42] Oh, what a hot half-life I half lived
[02:38.86] Oh, and the stripes and stars,
[02:41.28] how they stripped off the siding
[02:45.60] When my life ripped
[02:47.74] Off from the part that played as a kid
[02:52.16] Into the part that plays through your lips
[02:56.52] To find a warm, safe place and sit curled up inside it
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[03:03.70] So, here's goodbye
[03:05.68] From the part that's staying behind
[03:10.02] To the part that has to leave
[03:16.41] To the sublime lips that were never spoiled by lying
[03:22.98] But to the face inside the being
[03:29.63] Who wasn't me
[03:33.96] Who wasn't me
[03:35.80] Oh, no, no
[03:37.39] She's not me
[03:40.94] Oh, oh
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