I think y'all are thinking too hard. Some TMBG songs are hard to understand (Everybody Wants a Rock, Someone Keeps Moving My Chair) and some are easier (Birdhouse in Your Soul) but I think this one requires no interpretation. This one should be taken at face value. It's just a narrative of a spooky/goofy science fiction/fantasy story. Particle Man could be interpreted at face value too, but it has some more mysterious bits that crave explaining (Universe Man, Person Man). This doesn't have anything like that.
I think y'all are thinking too hard. Some TMBG songs are hard to understand (Everybody Wants a Rock, Someone Keeps Moving My Chair) and some are easier (Birdhouse in Your Soul) but I think this one requires no interpretation. This one should be taken at face value. It's just a narrative of a spooky/goofy science fiction/fantasy story. Particle Man could be interpreted at face value too, but it has some more mysterious bits that crave explaining (Universe Man, Person Man). This doesn't have anything like that.