1.) What the song is literally talking about is sixteen military wives, five of which who have lost their husbands. It's also about celebrities with sordid lives and celebrities who are given awards by an academy of 18 people. There's also mention of fourteen cannibal kings, apparently eating the celebrities.
2.) The theme of the song is that ignorance is bliss. The lyrics state that "Seventeen company men Out of which only twelve will make it back again Sergeant sends a letter to five Military wives, whose tears drip down through ten little eyes". If these military wives were never told of their husbands dying - thus being ignorant to the situation - they would not have been crying, and as such, would have been happier. Another lyric, "Fifteen celebrity minds
Leading their fifteen sordid wretched checkered lives", shows that if no one knew anything about these celebrity's lives, they would be spared having to listen to unpleasant and 'sordid' details, thus making them happy.
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