I always interpreted this as a love song (personally).
The Elevator Lady is whom the speaker desires, and wants her to "please fawn over me", and "Lady levitate me", to a higher plain of happiness and existence. He feels she could be his saviour, as he feels he is unworthy of her (deeming her the "Elevator" lady) as she exists on a higher plain (almost angelic).
The pleading in the lines, "If all in all is true" is the speaker pleading to a higher power/fate to make his wish come true, as it seems it would only serve justice to do so - 'if the world is truely a just place, then this has to be/happen'.
I think in the lines,
"Then take off them rings
Off them hose",
he is asking for her to first lower herself to his level in order to see/interact/get close(r) to him, in order to then raise him up to her own level.
The "Higher place" is where she comes from/lives on.
The lines, "Come on Pilgrim
You know he loves you" suggests to me, that in his (pretty desperate) attempt to convince her to come down to him and show him affection, he's taking on the voice of the higher power, and attempting to convince her that it is indeed fate that they be together, that the higher power would aprove, and that he is a genuine in his feelings (and therefore a person in general, and thus worthy). She is the "pilgrim": the one on a higher spiritual plain, and he is the "he".
This is all meant to be taken symbolically, of course - like poetry.
I doubt this was the intended meaning, but I just thought I'd share what my first/initial interpretation was. I still like it, and can't help but hear it (amongst others, such as ones mentioned here) most times when I listen to the song, still, even now.
PS alot of these lyrics seem wrong to me i.e. I don't hear "run" at the end, but rather "fall", myself.
hmmm that actually sounds a lot like my current situation-girl who for whatever reason sees me as some sort of mystic or something keeps trying to get me to have sex with her. I keep refusing since I'm not exactly in the habit of sleeping with whores and prostitutes but she believes her and I are like meant to be together or some silliness and that some sort of transcendental type/spiritual experience would occur by engaging her. Always going on about how I would change her life and vice versa...
hmmm that actually sounds a lot like my current situation-girl who for whatever reason sees me as some sort of mystic or something keeps trying to get me to have sex with her. I keep refusing since I'm not exactly in the habit of sleeping with whores and prostitutes but she believes her and I are like meant to be together or some silliness and that some sort of transcendental type/spiritual experience would occur by engaging her. Always going on about how I would change her life and vice versa...
Anyways, your interpretation seems pretty accurate-goes along with the...
Anyways, your interpretation seems pretty accurate-goes along with the whole sex-death-rebirth cycle and the concepts of conjunctio in alchemy. Perhaps, the lyrics describe just that. Who knows? people always have a way of infusing personal imagery and archetypical experience into their interpretations of poetry, lyric and song.
I always interpreted this as a love song (personally). The Elevator Lady is whom the speaker desires, and wants her to "please fawn over me", and "Lady levitate me", to a higher plain of happiness and existence. He feels she could be his saviour, as he feels he is unworthy of her (deeming her the "Elevator" lady) as she exists on a higher plain (almost angelic). The pleading in the lines, "If all in all is true" is the speaker pleading to a higher power/fate to make his wish come true, as it seems it would only serve justice to do so - 'if the world is truely a just place, then this has to be/happen'. I think in the lines, "Then take off them rings Off them hose", he is asking for her to first lower herself to his level in order to see/interact/get close(r) to him, in order to then raise him up to her own level. The "Higher place" is where she comes from/lives on. The lines, "Come on Pilgrim You know he loves you" suggests to me, that in his (pretty desperate) attempt to convince her to come down to him and show him affection, he's taking on the voice of the higher power, and attempting to convince her that it is indeed fate that they be together, that the higher power would aprove, and that he is a genuine in his feelings (and therefore a person in general, and thus worthy). She is the "pilgrim": the one on a higher spiritual plain, and he is the "he". This is all meant to be taken symbolically, of course - like poetry.
I doubt this was the intended meaning, but I just thought I'd share what my first/initial interpretation was. I still like it, and can't help but hear it (amongst others, such as ones mentioned here) most times when I listen to the song, still, even now.
PS alot of these lyrics seem wrong to me i.e. I don't hear "run" at the end, but rather "fall", myself.
hmmm that actually sounds a lot like my current situation-girl who for whatever reason sees me as some sort of mystic or something keeps trying to get me to have sex with her. I keep refusing since I'm not exactly in the habit of sleeping with whores and prostitutes but she believes her and I are like meant to be together or some silliness and that some sort of transcendental type/spiritual experience would occur by engaging her. Always going on about how I would change her life and vice versa...
hmmm that actually sounds a lot like my current situation-girl who for whatever reason sees me as some sort of mystic or something keeps trying to get me to have sex with her. I keep refusing since I'm not exactly in the habit of sleeping with whores and prostitutes but she believes her and I are like meant to be together or some silliness and that some sort of transcendental type/spiritual experience would occur by engaging her. Always going on about how I would change her life and vice versa...
Anyways, your interpretation seems pretty accurate-goes along with the...
Anyways, your interpretation seems pretty accurate-goes along with the whole sex-death-rebirth cycle and the concepts of conjunctio in alchemy. Perhaps, the lyrics describe just that. Who knows? people always have a way of infusing personal imagery and archetypical experience into their interpretations of poetry, lyric and song.