IMHO, it's a Vietnam War protest song. Remember it was released in 1975. Young man killing a young man. Many of them drafted (caught in a landslide, if I'm not back again). Many soldiers died (too late my time has come, calling out to Mama like a lot of dying soldiers do, I don't wanna die). But we're supposed to be the enlightened and cultured ones (Galileo, Figaro). But our wars make us no different from the Muslims (Bismallah). And the different melodies and styles in the song, IMHO, represent what's supposed to be different cultures, yet in the end we're all warlike (again a Vietnam protest song).
**IMHO, it’s a Vietnam War protest song.**
Interesting but you make it too intellectual for me.
I think go Glen Cambell’s Galveston. Filmed with him in an army uniform. “I am so afraid of dying”. Took 50 years to know what he was saying.