"Starry Stairs," from the album "The Stand Ins"
by Okkervil River

INTRO: 
E / E / Abm / Abm
C#m / B / A / A
F#m / F#m / C#m / C#m
B/ (x2444x@1)B/ (x2444x@1)C#m (x13321@4)name="chord_x2444x@1">B / A (x02220@1)VERSE:
               EThey (022100@1)asked for more.
             Abm (133111@4)                  C#m (x13321@4)      B(What (x2444x@1)do you think this fan club is for?)
            A (x02220@1)               F#m (244222@1)I slithered up each rose corridor.
         C#m (x13321@4)                  B (x2444x@1)    C#m (x13321@4) BI (x2444x@1)kept a warm, safe place at my core,
         Abefore (x02220@1)I lost it.
               EThey (022100@1)asked for blood.
            Abm (133111@4)                   C#m (x13321@4)      BWhat (x2444x@1)do you think this woman's made of?
          A (x02220@1)                   F#mI (244222@1)stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb.
              C#m (x13321@4)                B (x2444x@1)       C#m (x13321@4) BThey (x2444x@1)dreamt a low, long line to be crossed--
      Aand (x02220@1)I crossed it.

CHORUS:
     B (x2444x@1)                                 C#mI'm (x13321@4)alive, but a different kind of alive
                           B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) Athan (x02220@1)the way I used to be.
    B (x2444x@1)                                    C#mI (x13321@4)retire to a split white smile to be seen
                           B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) Ain (x02220@1)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 (x2444x@1)                                   C#mwhile (x13321@4)all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes,
                           B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) Asafe (x02220@1)behind a TV screen,
           B (x2444x@1)                                 C#mI (x13321@4)let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry
                           B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) A (x02220@1)        B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) Aalmost (x02220@1)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 (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) Awho (x02220@1)wasn't me.
               B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) AWho (x02220@1)wasn't me, oh no no,
               B (x2444x@1) C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1) AShe's (x02220@1)not me,            oh  oh.