Biography:
Okkervil River is an indie/folk rock band from Austin, Texas USA. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. The band currently consists of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), Will Graefe (guitar), Sarah K. Pedinotti (keyboards), Benjamin Lazar Davis (bass) and Cully Symington (drums).
The band self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival.
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Other songs:
- A Favor (guitar Solo)
- A Stone
- Lost Coastlines
- Maine Island Lovers
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Plus Ones
- Song Of Our So-called Friend
- Westfall
- A Girl In Port
- A Glow
- A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
- A King And A Queen
- All The Time Everyday
- Another Radio Song
- Auntie Alice
- Black
- Black Nemo
- Black Sheep Boy
- Blanket And Crib
- Blue Tulip
- Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel 1979
- Calling And Not Calling My Ex
- Comes Indiana Through The Smoke
- Dead Faces
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dont Move Back To La
- Down Down The Deep River
- Famous Tracheotomies
- For Real
- For The Enemy
- From A Cutlass Cruiser
- Get Big
- Hanging From A Hit
- Happy Hearts
- It Ends With A Fall
- It Was My Season
- John Allyn Smith Sails
- Kansas City
- Lady Liberty
- Lay Of The Last Survivor
- Lido Pier Suicide Car
- Lines
- Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
- Love To A Monster
- Mary On A Wave
- No Hidden Track
- No Key No Plan
- Oh Precious
- Okkervil River Rip
- Okkervil River Song
- On A Balcony
- On Tour With Zykos
- Pink Slips
- Piratess
- Pop Lie
- Presidents Dead
- Red
- Rider
- Seas Too Far To Reach
- She Would Look For Me
- Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
- Singer Songwriter
- So Come Back I Am Waiting
- Song About A Star
- Song Of Our So
- Starry Stairs
- The Industry
- The Latest Toughs
- The Next Four Months
- The Rise
- The Valley
- The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
- Title Track
- Unless Its Kicks
- Wake And Be Fine
- We Need A Myth
- Where The Spirit Left Us
- White
- White Shadow Waltz
- Yellow
- You Cant Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
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"Starry Stairs," from the album "The Stand Ins"
by Okkervil River
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:
E
They asked for more.
G#m C#m B
(What do you think this fan club is for?)
A F#m
I slithered up each rose corridor.
C#m B C#m B
I kept a warm, safe place at my core,
A
before I lost it.
E
They asked for blood.
G#m C#m B
What do you think this woman's made of?
A F#m
I stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb.
C#m B C#m B
They dreamt a low, long line to be crossed--
A
and I crossed it.
CHORUS:
B C#m
I'm alive, but a different kind of alive
B C#m B A
than the way I used to be.
B C#m
I retire to a split white smile to be seen
B C#m B A
in 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 C#m
while all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes,
B C#m B A
safe behind a TV screen,
B C#m
I let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry
B C#m B A B C#m B A
almost 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 C#m B A
who wasn't me.
B C#m B A
Who wasn't me, oh no no,
B C#m B A
She's not me, oh oh.
by Okkervil River
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:
E
They asked for more.
G#m C#m B
(What do you think this fan club is for?)
A F#m
I slithered up each rose corridor.
C#m B C#m B
I kept a warm, safe place at my core,
A
before I lost it.
E
They asked for blood.
G#m C#m B
What do you think this woman's made of?
A F#m
I stuck a small, thin pin in my thumb.
C#m B C#m B
They dreamt a low, long line to be crossed--
A
and I crossed it.
CHORUS:
B C#m
I'm alive, but a different kind of alive
B C#m B A
than the way I used to be.
B C#m
I retire to a split white smile to be seen
B C#m B A
in 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 C#m
while all these guys, all these curious sets of eyes,
B C#m B A
safe behind a TV screen,
B C#m
I let them pry, pick apart and hang up to dry
B C#m B A B C#m B A
almost 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 C#m B A
who wasn't me.
B C#m B A
Who wasn't me, oh no no,
B C#m B A
She's not me, oh oh.
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