I think this song is about a girl who starts off poor working her way through college. She enjoys the simple things, hence the pinball machine, and is headed in the right direction in life, going to school and such, but as the song goes on she loses herself. She may have been poor in the first half but life was good and she was happy, but when she gets a good job she starts getting into drugs and loses that good job. Now she's poor, into drugs and life sucks. Basically, as it says, don't let your income determine your life's outcome. Just because you have a crappy job and are poor, you can be happy with a good life. Same goes with the good job. Just cause you are making money, doesn't mean you won't have problems and life won't suck. No matter how much you make, you decide what you get out of life.
I think this song is about a girl who starts off poor working her way through college. She enjoys the simple things, hence the pinball machine, and is headed in the right direction in life, going to school and such, but as the song goes on she loses herself. She may have been poor in the first half but life was good and she was happy, but when she gets a good job she starts getting into drugs and loses that good job. Now she's poor, into drugs and life sucks. Basically, as it says, don't let your income determine your life's outcome. Just because you have a crappy job and are poor, you can be happy with a good life. Same goes with the good job. Just cause you are making money, doesn't mean you won't have problems and life won't suck. No matter how much you make, you decide what you get out of life.