Starry Stairs Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

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

 They asked for Emore.

 (What do you G♯mthink this fan club is C♯mfor?) B

 I slithered Aup each rose corriF♯mdor.

 I kept a C♯mwarm, safe place at my Bcore, C♯m B

 before I Alost it.

 They asked for Eblood.

 What do you G♯mthink this woman's made C♯mof? B

 I stuck a Asmall, thin pin in my F♯mthumb.

 They dreamt a C♯mlow, long line to be Bcrossed-- C♯m B

 and I Acrossed it.

Chorus

 I'm aBlive, but a different kind of alive C♯m

 than the way I used to be. B C♯m B A

 I reBtire to a split white smile to be seen C♯m

 in an old stag magazine. B C♯m B A

(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)

 while all these Bguys, all these curious sets of eyes, C♯m

 safe behind a TV screen, B C♯m B A

 I let them Bpry, pick apart and hang up to dry C♯m

 almost every piece of me. B C♯m B A B C♯m B A

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

 who wasn't me. B C♯m B A

 Who wasn't me, Boh nC♯mo no, B A

 She's not me, B C♯m Boh Aoh.