I think that Fat Mike is comparing his life to your typical working person's life. A lot of the songs on the Coaster album speak towards this theme. (Last Call, I AM an alcoholic, The Agony of Victory)
Fat Mike is living a dream. He found a way to actualize what many of us will never be able to... "find something you enjoy doing and you'll never work a day in your life." He doesn't work a "9-5" job like your average person.
Most of us will slave our lives away with our faces "permanently frowned" in jobs that do not make us happy only so we can go home and drink, smoke, gamble... (insert more vices here) ourselves into temporarily forgetting how shitty our lives have turned out.
He is saying that, in the end, all of our lives are meaningless. Many of us spend our lives trying to convince ourselves otherwise... thinking "life is more than a game of suits and ladders" but "nothing really matters." We are all superfluous.
I think that Fat Mike is comparing his life to your typical working person's life. A lot of the songs on the Coaster album speak towards this theme. (Last Call, I AM an alcoholic, The Agony of Victory)
Fat Mike is living a dream. He found a way to actualize what many of us will never be able to... "find something you enjoy doing and you'll never work a day in your life." He doesn't work a "9-5" job like your average person.
Most of us will slave our lives away with our faces "permanently frowned" in jobs that do not make us happy only so we can go home and drink, smoke, gamble... (insert more vices here) ourselves into temporarily forgetting how shitty our lives have turned out.
He is saying that, in the end, all of our lives are meaningless. Many of us spend our lives trying to convince ourselves otherwise... thinking "life is more than a game of suits and ladders" but "nothing really matters." We are all superfluous.