1. This song is about abuse within a family. There used to be someone for him, but now he doesn't have anyone or anything. There's no hope for the son; there's blood on the plow. The boy is stuck, like a scarecrow in the rain.
2. Abuse in families is a conflict of this song.
3. Mellencamp used the rainy scarecrow to symbolize physical and/or sexual abuse and a person that can't escape the problem.
4. There weren't many specific connotations and word choices that made the song what it was. But 'blood' was a word that showed pain and hurt in someone.
5. I think the author of the song is on the side that feels like there's no hope after abuse and that a person who's suffered from this past can't rise above it. We see the author more on the side of the abuser and the one abused.
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