Rock bottom is where this person is. So low down, in fact, that hell is the next stop. This is a song about someone whose luck has run out. About someone who’s made so many mistakes, there’s no way to reverse them. Why? Because he has the Devil on his shoulder. Nothing is going right — he can’t even sell his soul because of all the abuse it’s taken. The lines “Follow the rainbow, my lucky omen, there ain’t no pot of gold, just copper tokens” means that even though we have this fantastical idea of how wonderful life should be, at the end of everything, it’s all just an illusion. Life isn’t that great; when we think we’re getting gold, we get copper tokens.
Rock bottom is where this person is. So low down, in fact, that hell is the next stop. This is a song about someone whose luck has run out. About someone who’s made so many mistakes, there’s no way to reverse them. Why? Because he has the Devil on his shoulder. Nothing is going right — he can’t even sell his soul because of all the abuse it’s taken. The lines “Follow the rainbow, my lucky omen, there ain’t no pot of gold, just copper tokens” means that even though we have this fantastical idea of how wonderful life should be, at the end of everything, it’s all just an illusion. Life isn’t that great; when we think we’re getting gold, we get copper tokens.