Starry Stairs Lyrics - The Stand Ins - Okkervil River

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 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 

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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 out 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 have lived 

Oh, and the stripes and stars how they stripped 

Off the siding 

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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 

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 to the face inside the being 

Who wasn't me 

Who wasn't me 

Oh, no, she- she's not me 

Oh, oh