1. This song is about a man losing his farm to the government. He was one of many who lost his land. The government is taking them and it is not right.
2. This song might address the problem of the government taking peoples' home; homes that had been in their family for a long time, and now these people do not know what to do.
3. Mellencamp chooses a scarecrow to symbolize farming and the defenseless farmer.
4. Mellencamp uses "blood" because it has a negative connotation and it resembles death, just like the farm is "dying" because it has lost all of its support.
5. Mellencamp is on the farmer's side because he presents the farmer sympathetically. He makes the farmer's friend Schepman look bad, while John (the farmer) is still nice to him. For example, Schepman says sorry and then John says, "I will say a prayer for you tonight."
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