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#1 kevd7

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:17 PM

can somebody shed some light on these lines? I don't get the symbolism/metaphor....

"And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside"

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:19 PM

I never really got the pipe metaphor, but I thought that the rolling meant that she (the penny) was out of control, just rolling around aimlessly? Don't have a clue really - just a wild guess.....

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:20 PM

A penny can't roll up the walls of a pipe.
Like she can't do life.

Sort of.


Hmm I'm sure someone else can explain this better.

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:21 PM

so, "a tiny penny" isn't a reference to the smallest US currency?

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:33 PM

I looked it up cause it was bugging me lol...
Many people seem to think that since the song appears to be about drugs+break-ups... That pipe is a crack pipe and the penny is a crack rock.

I don't really know how that works.

#6 malaroda

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:36 PM

I think it was a metaphor for what her life is like without him, like Lainey said, she was out of control, didn't know what to do with herself...

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:36 PM

she is the penny, life is the pipe
a penny cant roll up the wall, or is hard for it to do

in my head it makes perfect sense, but writing it down i cant find the words
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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:38 PM

she is the penny, life is the pipe
a penny cant roll up the wall, or is hard for it to do

in my head it makes perfect sense, but writing it down i cant find the words

Exactly.
I do get what you mean though, it was what I was trying to say as well.


I have always loved that line btw. Might even want it as a tattoo.
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#9 lnz

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:39 PM

I always thought it was like this

Life is like a pipe: it goes round and round, you can't get out of it

penny rolling up the walls: she goes up and down up and down up and down up and down.

Basically I thought she was saying she lives on an emotional roller coaster.

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:40 PM

^You managed to put in words what I was trying to say!

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:42 PM

never thought of it like that
i always thought of the penny never quite reaching the top
but just constantly rolling with determination to try

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:42 PM

penny rolling up the walls: she goes up and down up and down up and down up and down.

Basically I thought she was saying she lives on an emotional roller coaster.


Yes, that's kind of what I was thinking of - roller coaster is a good metaphor.

But the thing that's so great to me is that lyrics can mean different things to different people, and I think it's cool to have different interpretations, hear others opinions....
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#13 kevd7

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:47 PM

interesting discussion. took me a while to get " you're longer than frozen turkey" from Stronger Than Me. Gotta take all these pipe ideas in

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:48 PM

frozen turkey still gets me lol

did that link work for you kev?

#15 kevd7

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Posted 08 May 2008 - 08:51 PM

frozen turkey takes forever to thaw. work with that, and let me know if you need more:lol: YES..you da man, Lee




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