Lyrics for Elevator Love Letter as interpreted by soapboxracer

Elevator Love Letter Lyrics
I'm so hard for a rich girl
My heels are high
My eyes cast low
And I don't know how to love
I get too tired after midday, lately
I take it out on my good friends
But the worst stays in
Or where would I begin?
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home

I'm so hard for the rich girl
Her heels so high
And my hopes so low
'cause I don't know how to love
I'll take her home after midnight
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
Of how we'll fall in love by the morning
I don't think she'll know
That I'm saying goodbye...

My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home

My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home

Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
I won't take anything away
Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
Don't take anything away

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fenix12
12-01-2004

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one of the best songs on the album. bar none.

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fenix12
12-01-2004

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though a minor correction, the lyrics are actually "i'm so hot for a(the) rich girl"

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soapboxracer
12-02-2004

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These lyrics are straight from the album CD's insert.

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foo55
01-13-2005

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weird, i thought the last time i checked these lyrics it said 'im so HOT...' which i thought was clearly wrong. i must be taking too many drugs.

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vintagetapshoes
04-28-2005

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hahaha

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clarion113
06-29-2005

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I always thought it was hard in the first stanza when the chick is singing and hot when in the second when the guy is singing.

FYI, CD insert lyrics have been known to be wrong. See Third Eye Blind's self titled for an example.

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FuncrusherPlus
07-26-2005

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It makes more sense, I think, if the second verse (i.e. the guy) says "hard." The song seems to be about a girl who feels hardened by her professional life, and she's depressed and angry about it. Then the guy meets her, in a club or something. She's dressed up in her high heels and he's "hard" for her in the literal sense (wink wink). He's going to take her home and tell her whatever he needs to tell her to get her to go to bed with him, and he plans on ducking out as fast as possible. The end is basically her just begging him to stay, just for the next day, she promises no other strings attached.

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spumpkinscm
04-03-2006

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i'm pretty sure, in the chorus, she says "elevator, elevate, take me home." as if she's telling the elevator to elevate and.. you know.. take her home.

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suclid003
05-15-2006

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That's what it sounds like to me too.

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origami0203
05-30-2006

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This song is wonderful, it's definitely my favourite on the album.
I agree with Funcrusher's perspective on the meaning, makes the most sense to me.

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Miss Misery
07-12-2006

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this song is really sad, i think. They're both so lonely. But the music sounds happy, which I think makes you even sadder when you realize.

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rose.parade
07-20-2006

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yeah... i think that its about two people
1. the girl who hates her work and doesnt know how to love.
2. a guy whos completely in love with her

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gwf25
07-30-2006

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this is one of the most beautiful songs stars has, there are so many layers to it, it's absolutely amazing

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J-Box
08-12-2006

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the guy who's completely in love with her who just wants sex? i think its a guy whos completly "hard" at the moment. hehe.

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catherineks
10-15-2006

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this reminds me of lying in bed next to the girl who is currently consuming all of my thoughts and feelings.

we were over at her house on a lazy sunday and had both just called into our jobs for the next day. she was doing some work (so she could send it in) and i was working on a crossword puzzle -- and it was intimate in a totally unphysical way.
and she was playing this CD and when this song came on i thought to myself, "in this moment, everything is so perfect."

i get transported there every time i hear it.

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Wafflepants
10-16-2006

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they would say "hard" because thats extremely awkward and sounds like he got a boner.

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Wafflepants
10-16-2006

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i meant they wouldnt say hard.

and this is my new favorite.

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aloha.loves
12-28-2006

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this song is so beautiful
i have no idea what it means.

but i love stars
they make amazing music

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DoItForTheTeam
01-24-2007

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ahah, im not the only one to not udnerstand everything, but i have an xcuse, because of my nationality =) =) =)

i dont know how ton interpret this song...
the girls fells alone and want some "spice" in her life... and the boy is...in love? or just want her?
i dont think its just for sex... its... oh... how to say... its just lust, desire. something he wants, a feeling... but not total love.

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amy xx
02-14-2007

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Lusting/desiring someone, would pretty much mean FOR SEX.

intr.v. lust·ed, lust·ing, lusts
To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual.

If it said 'hard' why would that be awkward? I dont think it LITERALLY means he gets a boner. Its just away to say hes attracted to her.

But at the same time it doesnt seem like the 'boy' is just trying to use her, i dont think someone whose 'hopes are so low' would just use her for sex. What would his hopes be low for. Not getting any ass, and i think most guys who would do that are more confident than they way this sounds. the whole boy stanza doesnt seem to go [to me]. its so contradicting. Like do they already know eachother? possibly in relationship and leaving and breaking up with her? or is he talking baout saying goodbye in the morning or after he gets some that night?

hmm... i never looked up the lyrics to the song before, and i always thought they said 'office CLOTHES.' ha.. silly me

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ohsolow
02-23-2007

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heres what i think:
this girl is cold, she holds everything inside and she hates it. she "doesnt knw how to love." sex is a way to feel.
he is a guy, he wants sex, its his way of feeling and hes willing to tell this girl whatever she wants to hear if it will get her into bed.
in the end shes rationalizing with him. she wants him to stay because she likes feeling but she knows it means nothing so shes willing to leave it no strings attached.

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justlikeoldtimes
03-04-2007

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I dont think the guy is in love with her...he just wants to get in her pants by telling her lies about love and plans on slipping out before she wakes up the next sunday morning. because she doesn't know how to love as she works all the time and thinks she's found it with him, she begs him to stay.

it's about two sexually frustrated people, but one's looking for love and the other's looking for just another one night stand.

but anyway, it's still a really really good song and I'm listening to it on repeat.

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snoopfroggyfrogg
03-11-2007

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whether he's 'hard' for her, or 'hot' for her, these two people need each other.

She doesn't know anything about this guy as she's been so wrapped up in her work, staying at the office all night long, and somewhere along the line, she's built up these protective barriers for herself that have turned her 'hard' and made her not know 'how to love'.

The man... perhaps he will just take her home, sleep with her and leave in the morning, as the last fewlines of his stanza suggest. But that is his own self-protective behaviour. He doesn't want to do it, as he likes this woman ("her heels so high, my hopes so low"), but has become somewhat resigned to th fact, because he himself doesn't 'know how to love'

I think the whole point of this song is looking at these two people's lives, and how even though they barely know each other (if at all), if they could just let the other one in, then maybe they could learn to love. If he would just 'Spend a lazy sunday in my arms', then perhaps they would be perfect for each other.

But they probably won't because that's the way life is, and that is the nature of many Stars songs.

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paradocs
07-16-2007

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while i agree with Funcrusher and snoopfroggyfrog... a young professional girl who's working life has made her thick skinned to love and a guy who's too afraid to have more than a onenight stand with her.

i have a question about the song though,
why is it called "elevator love letter"?

oh and in response to the discussion abuot hard/hot, if it's really "hard" and the lyric book says it, then perhaps they intend for Torquil (male vocal) to mean that he's "falling" Hard... not necessarily a boner.

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desocanyon
07-16-2007

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Hard/Hot discussion....

I just heard the song for the first time (so maybe hearing it with fresh ears?) And I think:

she says: Hard
he says: Hot

perhaps?

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