This is a rough one. I'll try to analyze it even though I think it's about a single event that I'm not familiar with. Plus those lyrics are off a bit.
The best I can do is look up where this song comes from. The best way to decipher a song is to look at it's title. Microtonic Wave. A tonic is something that heals, or cures an illness. So since it seems like this person is trying to run from this Microtonic Wave, it seems to me that h doesn't see it as a cure for anything. He sees it as something that will destroy who he is. "We're trapped in the drift of a Microtonic Wave." That makes me think that this is a guy just trying as hard as he can not ro conform (or that whole jazz. 8P)
Since microtonic isn't really a word, it makes me second guess what I said above. MicrotoMic is a word, though. Definition - The preparation of specimens with a microtome. - So of course, go to microtome and that is -An instrument used to cut a specimen, as of organic tissue, into thin sections for microscopic examination.-
Ok, so off of that I get this whole big Sum-It-Up idea.
They see this conforming as a microtomic change. They use a microtome to change things about everyday people to make them the same (or not themselves). Then Pinback simply changed the M in microtoMic into an N to give it a whole new meaning. This change is suddenly the cure (or tonic) for whatever problem this person has.
That's pretty much completely off of the title, though. So don't yell at me for being wrong. ;-)
This is a rough one. I'll try to analyze it even though I think it's about a single event that I'm not familiar with. Plus those lyrics are off a bit.
The best I can do is look up where this song comes from. The best way to decipher a song is to look at it's title. Microtonic Wave. A tonic is something that heals, or cures an illness. So since it seems like this person is trying to run from this Microtonic Wave, it seems to me that h doesn't see it as a cure for anything. He sees it as something that will destroy who he is. "We're trapped in the drift of a Microtonic Wave." That makes me think that this is a guy just trying as hard as he can not ro conform (or that whole jazz. 8P)
Since microtonic isn't really a word, it makes me second guess what I said above. MicrotoMic is a word, though. Definition - The preparation of specimens with a microtome. - So of course, go to microtome and that is -An instrument used to cut a specimen, as of organic tissue, into thin sections for microscopic examination.-
Ok, so off of that I get this whole big Sum-It-Up idea.
They see this conforming as a microtomic change. They use a microtome to change things about everyday people to make them the same (or not themselves). Then Pinback simply changed the M in microtoMic into an N to give it a whole new meaning. This change is suddenly the cure (or tonic) for whatever problem this person has.
That's pretty much completely off of the title, though. So don't yell at me for being wrong. ;-)