Most strike the same ominously breathless tone, and all reach the same vague nonconclusions.

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night

It was just a passing remark; you're reading too much into it.

Players win when they get out of the rat race (salaried jobs) by amassing passive income (investments in real estate or the stock market).