What is the song talking about (subject matter)?
The overt subject matter of the song is sixteen wives whose husbands go off to war and die there, and the widows are left to mourn their deaths. The song goes on to describe celebrities, and the final stanza depicts a group of "cannibal kings".
What is the theme (about what is the audience supposed to think)?
The theme is that the American people have come to thrive off depressing news and become attached to the media, but aren't actually emotionally impacted by the harshness of what really goes on in the world. The newsanchor talks about the widowed women without showing any real signs of caring about them, and the song depicts America going to war without the people really caring about its impact.
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