Starry Stairs-Okkervil River

[ti:Starry Stairs] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:The Stand Ins] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Starry Stairs - Okkervil River [00:17.32]They ask for more [00:19.20]What do you think this fan club is for [00:22.70] [00:23.76]I slithered up each rose corridor [00:27.32] [00:28.07]I kept a warm safe place at my core [00:31.70] [00:32.64]Before I lost it [00:34.58] [00:35.14]They ask for blood [00:36.45] [00:37.27]What do you think this woman's made of [00:41.50]I stuck a small thin pin in my thumb [00:45.21] [00:46.02]They dreamt a low long line to be crossed [00:49.96] [00:51.08]And I crossed it [00:52.39] [00:53.21]I'm alive [00:54.46] [00:55.52]But a different kind of alive [00:59.09] [01:00.09]Than the way I used to be [01:03.03] [01:06.84]I retire to a split white smile to be seen [01:12.09] [01:13.09]In some old stag magazine [01:15.72] [01:19.84]And this girl's eyes [01:21.72]When they were roughly wrenched open [01:24.47]I could see a starry stair up your thigh [01:29.72] [01:30.35]You hid behind your hair [01:32.78]Oh but I saw you smiling [01:36.35] [01:37.35]While all these guys all these curious sets of eyes [01:43.72]Safe behind a tv screen [01:47.10] [01:50.41]I let them pry pick apart and hang up to dry [01:56.23] [01:57.04]Almost every piece of me [02:00.41] [02:07.23]If you don't love me I'm sorry [02:09.16] [02:27.48]Oh what a trip [02:28.86] [02:30.05]Oh what a shimmering silver ship [02:33.36] [02:34.30]Oh what a hot half-life I half lived [02:37.99] [02:38.61]Oh and the stripes and stars [02:41.22]How they stripped off the siding [02:44.60] [02:45.53]When my life ripped [02:47.60]Off from the part that played as a kid [02:50.97] [02:51.97]Into the part that plays through your lips [02:55.60] [02:56.35]To find a warm safe place and sit curled up inside it [03:02.73] [03:03.41]So here's goodbye [03:04.98] [03:05.54]From the part that's staying behind [03:08.98] [03:09.79]To the part that has to leave [03:13.11] [03:16.48]To the sublime lips that were never spoiled by lying [03:22.31] [03:23.06]But to the face inside the being [03:26.20] [03:29.76]Who wasn't me [03:30.89] [03:33.89]Who wasn't me [03:35.89]Oh no no [03:37.51]She's not me [03:39.96] [03:40.96]Oh oh