Yet another comment showing ignorance of the man's work.
Steve was shooting heroin at 14. He was a junkie when his debut (and grammy-nominated) album Guitar Town was released in '86.
By the time his crossover record, Copperhead Road, was released in '88, his closest friends predicted he'd be dead within a year.
Facedown, have you listened to any of his post-drugs and -prison albums (since '94)? Methinks you haven't. Because he's doing the best work of his life now. (Oh, and the fact that you disagree with -- or, more likely, don't understand -- a given song means nothing.)
FYI, the albums he's released since getting clean are, in order: Train a Comin'; I Feel Alright(Grammy-nominated);El Corazon(Grammy-nominated);The Mountain(his first foray into bluegrass, with the best band in the genre, The Del McCoury Band -- oh, that one was Grammy nominated, too);Transcendental Blues.You obviously haven't listened with anything approaching a critical ear to any of his recent work, if you've listened at all.
Here's an idea: spin up your favorite Shania Twain or Garth Brooks cd, and call it art. Later, you can read something by John Grisham, and tell yourself it's literature.
Sounds to me his brains are FRIED. That explains a lot about why he wrote the Johnny Taliban song.