Glass of the Microscope

To me, the song is about not being able to see the bigger picture...we are living inside our tiny worlds, seeing only a small part of the whole - through the microscope, but it is not so hard to see more, you only have to - tilt your head back from the microscope.

I had a hard time hearing the second "in truth" section, but just submitted my corrections (I think it is "Entombed by oil spills, the wicked law men and the benzene underground The architecture ruining this town").

Still not sure what else is being said at the very end (after "Over Again")

If my lyric transcribing are at all close, I think it is about the environment.

How those that are going to be ignorant to scientific results are doomed to be damned by their ignorance.

Song is so good...

This song seems to be about oil and how our reliance on it is both killing us and degrading our quality of life. "Yesterday was nice / And today looked fine" -- everything seems OK right now, but the fact is that it's not "all alright." It's pretty fucking bleak because we're being slowly killed by gasoline fumes without realizing it and without CHOICE, since the politicians don't make laws with their citizens' well-being in mind, they do so in favor of their greed and the demand for oil. Also, to be "under the glass of the microscope" makes me think that people are really being trivialized and objectified by this whole process. If people die, get cancer, lose their jobs because of an oil spill, what does it matter? We're just pawns in this game. We are like tiny, powerless organisms in a petri dish in comparison to the structures that entomb and use us--politics, consumerism, the demand for oil. Perhaps the lyrics "Tilt your head back, don't choke" is a wry call to maintain our dignity in the face of these forces, even though they're ultimately too much for us.

I feel like this song is from the perspective of cells that are being viewed under a microscope. Upon viewing it is realized that the cells are cancerous (from the poisoning of oil / fumes).

Could it be "There's no way to ? No way to..." at the end?

I think at the end its "We're going to..." maybe even "we're going to hell" at one point

Where there's a blank, it should say oil spills

To me, the song is about not being able to see the bigger picture...we are living inside our tiny worlds, seeing only a small part of the whole - through the microscope, but it is not so hard to see more, you only have to - tilt your head back from the microscope.

To me, the song is about not being able to see the bigger picture...we are living inside our tiny worlds, seeing only a small part of the whole - through the microscope, but it is not so hard to see more, you only have to - tilt your head back from the microscope.