**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.
Galveston is such a great song. You hear the title, and you think it’s about a place. Then it starts, and you think it’s about a girl. Then it continues, and it’s about a young soldier afraid of dying.