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



Lyrics submitted by soapboxracer, edited by Sladex

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Elevator Love Letter song meanings
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  • +2
    My Interpretation:The song tells you exactly what's up -- neither of them know how to love. Perhaps because she's too busy working, hanging around the office to let down her barriers. The guy doesn't know how to love, he's not willing to commit, maybe he doesn't know how. It's very common for people to get physical but never intimate.

    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.
    Flag stevevon August 22, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:aznlep nailed it! Bravo!
    Flag drds63on March 31, 2011   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:I'm so hard for a rich girl
    (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)
    Flag therookie93on December 24, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:apart from the one line that says "my office glows..." i don't get why everyone seems to assume that she's a working girl?
    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.
    Flag 2Tipsy2Gypsyon April 20, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:The woman is the song is an upper middle class working girl in a big city. Think the "Sex in the City" girls. She's "hard" for a rich girl, or street smart and tough. Or at least she likes to think she is. That's the persona she projects. But inside she's vulnerable. It's harder and harder to make it through her unfulfilling days. She gets so tired after midday. Lately.

    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.
    Flag kosk11348on December 23, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:aznlep has it right, I'm pretty darn sure. I'd say that the guy's situation is a bit more tragic, though -- he doesn't know how to love but he wants to (the video is a hint here, I think). And, aznlep is also right that the juxtaposition of the soft, playful, melodic tune with what is really a wrenching and depressing meaning is especially remarkable.

    and I hear her say 'hard' and him say 'hot' myself.
    Flag ywgyulcmisanon July 30, 2009   Link
  • +1
    Song Meaning:This is a great song. It's about two people who are both jaded. She's got a good job and makes a lot of money ("a rich girl"), and she works long hours in a high rise office building. She probably lives in a high rise condo as well. She goes up and down 30, 40 or 50 floors to and from work and home, and probably drives from underground lot to underground lot or takes a subway train between the buildings. Imagine the commute between these two places, both small, orderly, clean and cold, with windows looking out on the city lights.

    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.
    Flag deeleighon May 29, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:What a beautiful song. I enjoyed reading everyone's comments on it too!
    Flag shockdelicaon May 09, 2009   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:The song is a story, like many of Stars' songs are. It is about a wealthy girl who is depressed and hardened over her work in an office and doesn't know how to love, blaming her friends for her anger. Deep down, however, she knows that won't solve her problems, making her sadder and lonelier. She walks about the workplace in her high heels with her eyes cast low, and finds that lately she gets too tired by midday (noon, when the working day is only half over). She's at the breaking point when she meets a man with low hopes in her situation.

    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.

    Flag iliketoskateon April 26, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this is the first song i ever heard by stars and i have been in love with their music ever since. im not too sure on the meaning though--maybe the point is that there could be so so many meanings? what i gathered was that this is a girl who keeps everyting to herself "but the worst stays in" and she doesn't know how to love and is maybe too scared to be that vulnerable to she just shies (sp?) away from it. when torq says pretty much the same lines back to her i think it could suggest a connection between their two "characters" in the song? he is singing to her but she is just singing to the elevator and thinking to herself that all she wants to do is go home ... but she has no idea that there is this guy out there who loves her from afar....beautiful and heart-wrenching whatever the meaning(s) is/are .
    Flag clever.ruse.on September 12, 2008   Link

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