There are multiple interpretations of the song, i interpret that he is talking about how the government tells us that we are free and we can be whatever we want to be, which is true, but i think he feels as he's trapped in a dilemma of either too many choices, not enough choices, or his individuality of ideas that he comes up with. But we are also not free at the same time, because when we can be whatever we want to be, we are a product of the government, and he starts to make comparisons like Ex. Social Security Numbers to Serial Numbers.
There are multiple interpretations of the song, i interpret that he is talking about how the government tells us that we are free and we can be whatever we want to be, which is true, but i think he feels as he's trapped in a dilemma of either too many choices, not enough choices, or his individuality of ideas that he comes up with. But we are also not free at the same time, because when we can be whatever we want to be, we are a product of the government, and he starts to make comparisons like Ex. Social Security Numbers to Serial Numbers.