Elevator Operator Lyrics - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett

Oliver Paul, twenty years old 

Thick head of hair, worries he's going bald 

Wakes up at quarter past nine 

Fair evades his way down the 96 tram line 

Breakfast on the run again, he's well aware 

He's dropping soy linseed Vegemite crumbs everywhere 

Feeling sick at the sight of his computer 

He dodges his way through the Swanston commuters 

Rips off his tie, hands it to a homeless man 

Sleeping in the corner of a metro bus stand and he screams 

"I'm not going to work today 

Going to count the minutes that the trains run late 

Sit on the grass building pyramids out of Coke cans" 

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Headphone wielding to the Nicholas building 

He trips on a pothole that's not been filled in 

He waits for an elevator, one to nine 

A lady walks in and waits by his side 

Her heels are high and her bag is snakeskin 

Hair pulled so tight you can see her skeleton 

Vickers perfume on her breath 

A tortoise shell necklace between her breasts 

She looks him up and down with a botox frown 

He's well used to that look by now 

The elevator dings and they awkwardly step in 

Their fingers touch on the rooftop button 

Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof 

You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth 

I'd give anything to have skin like you 

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He said "I think you're projecting the way that you're feeling 

I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly 

I come up here for perception and clarity 

I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity 

All the people look like ants from up here 

And the wind's the only traffic you can hear" 

He said "All I ever wanted to be 

Was an elevator operator, can you help me please?"