After reading the lyrics,what I get from them is that the title stands for,"things are so obviously not good right now"...either in the world or in America (and or Canada.) The war is of course Vietnam and maybe just war itself. The crusty old lawman would have to either be LBJ or Nixon,both who knew the war was a futile effort and (according to a news special I saw on TV a few weeks back)yet kept sending troops. The tear on the face of the moon could relate to the fact that we can send people there but we can't solve our problems here. The old man and his chest full of charts? The word chart could mean looking back to see where he went wrong and what's left of his brains and part of him being fed to the sharks means he's lost his mind and also just given up on himself (or something he tried to do). That's my take,Borderstone-outta here and Alberta Bound.
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