Okkervil River

Okkervil River - Starry Stairs lyrics

rate me

They ask for more;

What do you think this fanclub is for?

I slithered up each rose corridor,

I kept a warm safe place in my core

before I lost it.

They ask for blood;

What do you think this womans 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 on an old sad magazine.

And this girls eyes,

Well they were roughly wretched open;

I could see a starry stare 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 out to dry

Almost every piece of me.

(If you don't love me, I'm sorry)

Oh. what a trip,

Oh. what a shivering 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, all from the part that played as a kid

Into the part that blazed through your lips

To find a warm, safe place then to sit

curl up inside it.

So here's goodbye

From the part that stays behind

To the part that has to leave

To the sublime lips that were never spoiled

by lying to the face inside the being

Who wasn't me

Who wasn't me

She's not me

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