Wilco , "Ashes Of American Flag"

This song has a lot of turns of emotions in it. It has the feeling of him being in the old school days, but then it remoarses back to the present sort of with him telling about what would happen if stuff had happened to him. But it is really set in the back, saying what if there had been a change, what would happen? Thats how i figure that whole song, and rythm with it.