Starry Stairs Lyrics
They ask for more
What do you think this fan club is for?
I slithered up each rose corridor
I kept a warm, safe place at my core
Before I lost it
They ask for blood
What do you think this woman's made of?
I stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb
They dreamt a low, long line to be crossed
And I crossed it
I'm alive but a different kind of life
Than the way I used to be
I retire to a split, white smile to be seen
In some old stag magazine
And this girl's eyes
When they were roughly wrenched open
I could see a starry stair up your thigh
You hid behind your hair
Oh, but I saw you smiling
While all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes
Safe behind a TV screen
I let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry
Almost every piece of me
If you don't love me, I'm sorry
Oh, what a trip? Oh, what a shimmering silver ship?
Oh, what a hot half-life I half lived?
Oh, and the stripes and stars, how they stripped off the siding
When my life ripped off from the part that played as a kid
Into the part that plays through your lips
To find a warm, safe place and sit curled up inside it?
So, here's goodbye
From the part that's staying behind
To the part that has to leave
To the sublime lips that were never spoiled by lying
But to the face inside the being
Who wasn't me, who wasn't me
Oh, no, no, she's, she's not me, oh, oh
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Okkervil River Songs (97) List All
A Girl In Port
A Glow
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
A King And A Queen
A Stone
Another Radio Song
Auntie Alice
Black
Black Sheep Boy
Blanket And Crib
Blue Tulip
Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979
Calling And Not Calling My Ex
Can't Be Saved
Dead Dog Song
Dead Faces
Dead!
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Falling Away With You
For Real
For The Captain
For The Enemy
Get Big
H.
Hanging From A Hit
Happy Hearts
He Passes Number Thirty-Three
Heaven Help Us
I Hate Myself And Want to Die
Icky Thump
If I Ain't Got You
If I Fall
Imagine
In A Radio Song
In My Daughter's Eyes
In The Name Of God
It Ends With A Fall
John Allyn Smith Sails
Kansas City
Kathy Keller
Lady Liberty
Lay Of The Last Survivor
Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
Little Wonder
Lost Coastlines
Lucky
Maine Island Lovers
Millionaire
Missing
My Bad Days
Oh, Precious
Ohio Is For Lovers
Okkervil River Song
On Tour With Zykos
Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
Pain
Piratess
Plus Ones
Pop Lie
Progenies of The Great Apocalypse
Red
Reinventing Your Exit
Rider
Running Up That Hill
Sad But True
Sanitarium
Savannah Smiles
Seas Too Far To Reach
Silence Is A Scary Sound
Singer Songwriter
So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Sober
Soldiers Of The Wasteland
Song About A Star
Song of Our So-Called Friend
Stand Ins, One
Stand Ins, Two
Starry Stairs
The Last Night
The Latest Toughs
The Rise
The Valley
The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion
The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
Title Track
Unless It Kicks
Vermillion, Pt. 2
Wake And Be Fine
We Need A Myth
Westfall
What Sarah Said
White Shadow Waltz
Whole Wide World
Wires
Yellow
You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
Your Past Life As A Blast
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