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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
How we'll be 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
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
How we'll be 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
Lyrics submitted by soapboxracer, edited by Sladex
Track duration: 04:03
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Everyone pretty much gets all that, it's the last lyrics that I don't think people are getting. It's not that only she's said and wants love and he won't give it to her. It's about getting out of the day-to-day that keeps you from slowing down, the office, the heals, the elevators, the bright lights and instead to spend a whole day snuggling in each others' arms -- in other words, to know love. This is what both of the desperately want, but they're too wrapped up with their issues to experience it.
Great lyrics.
(She's hard to get maybe, because she's rich? IDK)
My heels are high
(Self explanatory)
My eyes cast low
(She's obviously not as happy as she should be)
And I don't know how to love
(Again, she isn't good with relationships)
I get too tired after midday, lately
(She stays up late, clubbing or working perhaps and she's tired during the day)
I take it out on my good friends
(She's too tired or hungover to hang out. Perhaps her "good friends" are all the enjoyable things she sacrifices while staying up)
But the worst stays in
(She still needs to take care of all the activities she hates)
Or where would I begin?
(?She doesn't know where to start?)
My office glows all night long
(She's up working all night or at least shes staying up all night)
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
(I'm not sure but if the stars are all gone she's indoors. I'd like to think that the "nuclear show" would be the visual effects at a club or show)
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
(Obviously she wants to go from the cold world to her apartment upstairs and rest)
I'm so hard [or hot FTW!] for the rich girl
(This guy has a thing for this girl)
Her heels so high
(Again same meaning as before)
And my hope's so low
(He feels despair because he doesn't feel he has a chance with her)
'cause I don't know how to love
(I'm not sure about this one. He could be 1) superficial 2) immature 3) inexperienced)
I'll take her home after midnight
(He's going to take her home late at night)
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
(I like this line. My interpretation is that he thinks she wants her to hear "lies." This could be about his own wealth, status, falling in love, etc. but that's not the main point. The thing is, he expects her to want to hear something that really is false)
Of how we'll fall in love by the morning
(Goes with the previous line. Many think he just wants to make sex with her but I think there's more to it than that. I want to say they both want something more but they in a sense realize they "don't know how to love")
I don't think she'll know
(He thinks that he can fool her into believing his lies about love)
That I'm saying goodbye...
(He's going to leave)
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
(Amy Millan sings this part so either the girl is thinking this or both of them are. If the girl is thinking this, then she's moved beyond her avoidance of love. If both are thinking this than it's essentially a missed opportunity by both)
(It's basically a song about a busy, working, wealthy girl who meets a guy that we don't know much about and they "do it." After, one or both of them wants more out of the relationship. Instead, the elevator returns one of our characters back to reality)
i think the song is more abstract than everyone is making out to be. it seems to me that the song title should give you a clue...elevator love letter...
I don't think its a love letter per-say but it is a letter...two letters. think of it like a journal entry where the girl/boy gives her/his perspective on their life and how they feel. And they are pleading for someone or some force(the elevator) to take them to where they belong maybe to the one they love and so maybe the reference to a love letter.
the bridge sounds like a desperate plea to hold on to something that is no more making me think that they already know who they love, who they are writing the love letter for. a classic case of "love gone wrong and now I'm desperately trying to get it back"
that's just my opinion.
The man in the song is the sort guy who preys on such vulnerable women. He sees her more clearly than she sees himself. He knows exactly the sorts of sweet little lies he needs to tell to bed her, which is all he really cares about. The man is not a villain, he's just doing what he does. He admits up front that he's incapable of love. He also knows that the woman will hear what she wants to hear anyway, and he doesn't need to try all that hard to lie to her. She needs the fantasy of love even if none exists. When he tells her that he's really saying goodbye, she sings over his words and drowns him out. She's singing about the office, throwing herself back into her work.
So that's the cycle. She's unhappy at work, so she sleeps with men out of desperation, then to hide from the shame of that she throws herself back into work. It's about the late nights she leaves the office and takes that lonely ride down the elevator. Perhaps the only moment in her life where she allows herself a moment of honest reflection.
and I hear her say 'hard' and him say 'hot' myself.
In North America, the downtown office buildings are all lit up at night, and people sometimes work very late. The lit up high rises and the views out the windows of the city are the "nuclear show." "My office glows all night long, it's a nuclear show and the stars are gone." I love that line. You can't see the stars from downtown because of all the lights in the buildings. Of course, the electric lights run off of a mostly nuclear-powered grid.
In a big city, you're always surrounded by people, but it can be hard to connect. You want to hang on to someone, but it just makes things messy. You have your work, which you're deeply involved in, and your apartment, which is a place to eat and sleep. And it's all kind of tidy and beautiful and in control, even if you feel very lonely. So, you crave love, but you also can't deal with the drama and the attachments. I think that both of the people in the song are more or less in that place.
That's what I think. My husband just thinks she's looking for love and he's a manipulative bastard.
He lies to her about the possibilities of them falling in love by the next morning (Sunday), and they go home together one night. He'll be ready to move on, and knows that she won't be. The girl doesn't want to let him go, believing that she is in love with him due to not knowing how to love, and begs him to stay with her and not to take anything (the relationship they might have had) away.
In the chorus, she wants the elevator to take her home -- to leave the office and get away from all of her troubles, only to be heartbroken by the man she thought she loved. The song ends on a sad note for the woman.