Starry Stairs

"starry stairs , " from the album "the stand ins" by okkervil river Intro : E / E / G#m / G#m C#m / B / A / A F#m / F#m / C#m / C#m B / B / C#m B / A Verse : E they asked for more . G#m C#m B ( what do you think this fan club is for? ) A F#m i slithered up each rose corridor . C#m B C#m B i kept a warm , safe place at my core , A before i lost it . E they asked for blood . G#m C#m B what do you think this woman’s made of? A F#m i stuck a small , thin pin in my thumb . C#m B C#m B they dreamt a low , long line to be crossed - - A and i crossed it . Chorus : B C#m i’m alive , but a different kind of alive B C#m B A than the way i used to be . B C#m i retire to a split white smile to be seen B C#m B A in an old stag magazine . ( Verse ) 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 were smiling ) , ( Chorus ) B C#m while all these guys , all these curious sets of eyes , B C#m B A safe behind a tv screen , B C#m i let them pry , pick apart and hang up to dry B C#m B A B C#m B A almost every piece of me . n . C . ( if you don’t love me , i’m sorry . ) Interlude : [ same as Intro / Verse ] ( Verse ) 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 . ( Chorus ) 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 the beam , Outro : B C#m B A who wasn’t me . B C#m B A who wasn’t me , oh no no , B C#m B A she’s not me , oh oh .