(Shannon Wilsey On The) Starry Stairs letra

They asked 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 asked fo blood
What do you think this woman is 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 alive
Than the way I used to be
I retire
To a split white smile to be seen
In some old stag magazine

And these 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
And the stripes and stars,
How they stripped
Off of the siding

When my life ripped
Off from the part that played as a kid
Into the part that blazed through your lids
To find a warm, safe place
And 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 a line
To the face inside of the beam
Who wasn't me

Okkervil River - Letras

• (Shannon Wilsey On The) Starry Stairs
• A Favor
• A Girl In Port
• A Glow
• A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
• A King And A Queen
• A Leaf
• A Stone
• And I Have Seen The World Of Dreams
• Another Radio Song
• Auntie Alice
• Black
• Black Sheep Boy
• Black Sheep Boy #4
• Blackest Coat
• Blanket And Crib
• Blue Tulip
• Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979
• Calling and Not Calling My Ex
• Curse
• Dead Dog Song
• Dead Faces
• Disfigured Cowboy
• Do What You Gotta Do
• Dreadful Wind And Rain
• Dry Bones
• For Real
• For The Captain
• For The Enemy
• Get Big
• Girl In Port
• Hanging From a Hit
• Happy Hearts
• He Passes Number Thirty-Three
• In A Radio Song
• It Ends With A Fall
• It Was My Season
• It's So Nice To Get Stoned
• John Allyn Smith Sails
• Just Give Me Time
• Kansas City
• Kathy Keller
• Lady Liberty
• Last Love Song For Now
• Lay Of The Last Survivor
• Lines
• Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
• Lost Coastlines
• Love To A Monster
• Maine Island Lovers
• Missing Children
• My Bad Days
• Nathan
• No Hidden Track
• No Key No Plan
• Numbers
• O, Dana
• Oh, Precious
• Okkervil River Song
• On A Balcony
• On Tour with Zykos
• One Soul Less On Your Fiery List
• Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
• Piratess
• Plan D
• Plus Ones
• Pop Lie
• Red
• Rider
• Savannah Smiles
• Seas Too Far To Reach
• Show Yourself
• Singer Songwriter
• So Come Back, I Am Waiting
• Song About A Star
• Song of Our So-Called Friend
• 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
• U.f.o.
• Unless It's Kicks
• Wake And Be Fine
• We Need a Myth
• Westfall
• White Shadow Waltz
• Whole Wide World
• Yellow
• You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
• Your Past Life As a Blast