It'd be a more powerful metaphor if he wasn't a massive manwhore and his "love" wasn't any fan with great tits, or his second wife's sister.

He didn't write several of his songs. That's really common. Many writers are not performers.

Yes, so is "hey porter" or "boy named sue", but those are sung jokes of a sort which gives them a purpose ;)

That's because modern country is squarely focused on (far) right leaning people and they are utterly deaf, dumb and blind to any sort of metaphor, sarcasm and subtlety.

It's why these pricks go nuts for songs like Killing in the Name, not realizing it's a song that explicitly hates on them saying stuff like "some of those who work forces, are the same that BURN CROSSES".

They only see and hear that title and have no fucking clue what it and the rest of the song is actually about.

Also still fairly anti capitalism. The whole core is "I worked at a Cadillac factory making cars I could never afford with what they paid".

That's a classic, and I won't hear one word against it.

And it didn't cost me a dime!