Lyrics for (Shannon Wilsey on the) Starry Stairs as interpreted by soCtra

(Shannon Wilsey on the) Starry Stairs Lyrics
They ask for more;
What do you think this fanclub is for?
I slithered up each rose corridor,
I kept a warm safe place in my core
before I lost it.

They ask for blood;
What do you think this womans made of?
I stuck a small thin pin in my thumb;
They dreamt a low long line to be crossed
and I crossed it.

I'm alive but a different kind of life
Than the way I used to be;
I retire to a split white smile to be seen
In on an old sad magazine.

And this girls eyes,
Well they were roughly wretched open;
I could see a starry stare up your thigh.
You hid behind your hair, oh, but I saw you smiling

While all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes
safe behind a TV screen.
I let them pry;
Pick apart and hang out to dry
Almost every piece of me.
(If you don't love me, I'm sorry)

Oh what a trip,
Oh what a shivering silver ship,
Oh what a hot half-life I half lived
Oh and the stripes and stars
how they stripped off the siding.

When my life ripped, all from the part that played as a kid
Into the part that blazed through your lips
To find a safe warm place then to sit
curl up inside it.

So here's goodbye
From the part that stays behind
To the part that has to leave
To the sublime lips that were never spoiled
by lying to the face inside the being
Who wasn't me
Who wasn't me
She's not me

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whatchamacallme
09-25-2007

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This is a sequel of sorts to 'Savannah Smiles.'

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heroinhotwater
03-28-2008

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I kind of wish this was on the album instead of "Savannah Smiles," but you know, I trust their judgment and in a little while I'll probably love "Savannah Smiles." And a lot of the time it's really, really cool when bands have really outstanding b-sides.

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whatchamacallme
05-31-2008

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It's supposed to be on The Stand Ins.

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slower_twin
07-04-2008

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The last line in the first chorus is defiantly "in an old stag magazine" rather than "sad", seeing as the song was also written about a porn star

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slower_twin
07-04-2008

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The last line in the first chorus is defiantly "in an old stag magazine" rather than "sad", seeing as the song was also written about a porn star

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P to the G
08-02-2008

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I'd never made a connection between Savannah Smiles, a song I enjoy more, and this one. I never thought it was about a porn star either. I thought Sheff was singing about an ordinary girl turned reality TV star before going back to being a nobody. I can see the songs as the tale of a porn star who looses herself completely pretty easily on closer inspection of the lyrics though.

"Oh and the stripes and stars
how they stripped off the siding"

I am not at all certain how these lines relate to the rest of the song. "Stripes and stars" calls to mind an image of the American flag, but "stripped of the siding" doesn't mean anything to me.

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