Starry Stairs-Okkervil River

[00:17.26]They ask for more [00:19.28]What do you think this fan club is for? [00:23.83]I slithered up each rose corridor [00:28.30]I kept a warm, safe place at my core [00:32.74]Before I lost it [00:35.24] [00:35.44]They ask for blood [00:37.41]What do you think this woman's made of? [00:41.77]I stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb [00:46.28]They dreamt a low, long line to be crossed [00:51.00]And I crossed it [00:53.10] [00:53.33]I'm alive [00:55.72]But a different kind of alive [01:00.13]Than the way I used to be [01:03.99] [01:06.76]I retire to a split, white smile to be seen [01:13.13]In some old stag magazine [01:19.78]And this girl's eyes, [01:22.05]when they were roughly wrenched open [01:26.29]I could see a starry stair up your thigh [01:30.56]You hid behind your hair [01:32.95]Oh, but I saw you smiling [01:37.75]While all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes [01:44.17]Safe behind a tv screen [01:50.53]I let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry [01:57.33]almost every piece of me [02:01.32] [02:07.24]If you don't love me, I'm sorry [02:09.98] [02:27.45]Oh, what a trip [02:30.02]Oh, what a shimmering silver ship [02:34.42]Oh, what a hot half-life I half lived [02:38.86]Oh, and the stripes and stars, [02:41.28]how they stripped off the siding [02:45.60]When my life ripped [02:47.74]Off from the part that played as a kid [02:52.16]Into the part that plays through your lips [02:56.52]To find a warm, safe place and sit curled up inside it [03:03.51] [03:03.70]So, here's goodbye [03:05.68]From the part that's staying behind [03:10.02]To the part that has to leave [03:16.41]To the sublime lips that were never spoiled by lying [03:22.98]But to the face inside the being [03:29.63]Who wasn't me [03:33.96]Who wasn't me [03:35.80]Oh, no, no [03:37.39]She's not me [03:40.94]Oh, oh [03:58.73]