“Elevate Me Later” is Pavement’s second song on the album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain written by Stephen Malkmus.
The title complements the song’s critique of society’s typical upper class by dismissing personal economic “elevation” for a “later” time. The song’s topic of economic disparity is recog...
[Verse 1]
Well, you greet the tokens and stamps
Underneath the fake oil-burnin' lamps
In the city we forgot to name
The concourse is four-wheeled shame
And the courthouse is double-breast
I'd like to check out your public protests
Why're you complaining? Ta
[Verse 2]
Those who sleep with electric guitars
Range Rovin' with the cinema stars
And I wouldn't want to shake their hands
'Cause they're in such a high-protein land
Because there's forty different shades of black
So many fortresses and ways to attack
So why're you complaining? Ta
Elevate Me Later was written by Stephen Malkmus.
Elevate Me Later was produced by Pavement.
Pavement released Elevate Me Later on Mon Feb 14 1994.