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Is it a metaphor that claims wealth is meaningless?

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Rebecca

Good guess! The lyrics "you find out your gold's just plastic" likely means that something which she considered to be valuable (or important) ended up just being plastic - worthless and cheap. Thus, you can interpret this sentence to mean that once you obtain it, you may discover that having wealth is actually meaningless.

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