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Starry Stairs easy guitar chords by
Okkervil River
Okkervil River

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Intro 1
D
A
F#m
G
Bm
Em
G
Em
Bm

A
D
A
G

Verse 1
D

They ask for more;
F#m
Bm

What do you think this fan club is for?
A
G
Em

I slithered up each rose corridor,
Bm
A

I kept a warm safe place in my core
G

Before I lost it.
Verse 2
D

They ask for blood,
F#m

What do you think this
Bm

woman's made of?
A
G

I stuck a small thin pin in my
Em

thumb;
Bm

They dreamt a low long
A

line to be crossed
G

And I crossed it.
Verse 3
A

I'm alive but a different
Bm

kind of life
A
G

Than the way I used to be,
A
D
A
Bm

I retire to a split white smile to be seen
Verse 4

In on an old sad magazine.
A
G
D

And this girls eyes,
F#m

Well they were roughly wretched open,
Bm
A
G

I could see a starry
Em

stare up your thigh.
Bm

You hid behind your hair, oh,
A
G

but I saw you smiling
Verse 5
A

While all these guys,
D
A
Bm

all these curious sets of eyes
A
G

Safe behind a TV screen.
A
D

I let them pry,
A
Bm

Pick apart and hang out to dry

Almost every piece of me.
A
G
A
Verse 6
G


(If you don't love me,
D
F#m
D
Bm
A
G
Em
Bm
A
G

I'm

sorry)
Verse 7
D

Oh, what a trip,
F#m
Bm

Oh, what a shivering silver ship,
A
G
Em

Oh, what a hot half-life I I half lived
Bm

Oh, and the stripes and stars
A
G

How they stripped off the siding.
Verse 8
D

When my life ripped,
F#m
Bm

all from the part that played as a kid
A
G

Into the part that blazed
Em

through your lips
Bm

To find a warm, safe place then to sit
A
G

Curl up inside it.
Verse 9
A

So here's goodbye
D
A
Bm

From the part that stays behind
A
G

To the part that has to leave
A
D
A

To the sublime lips that

were never spoiled
Bm

By lying to the face inside the being
A
G
A
G

Who wasn't me
A
G

Who wasn't me
A
G

She's not me

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Chords
  • D

  • A

  • F#m

    2
  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • Em

Capo: 2

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