Do you listen to the WORDS in rock songs?

I was driving home last night, and my radio station played a live version of an old Neil Young song, "Rockin' in the Free World," a song I find extraordinarily disturbing. Here's the final verse:

"I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool."

Then the chorus--

"Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world."

And behond the chorus, you hear the crowd cheering and whistling and generally reacting as if they'd just heard something really cool. WTF? Don't people listen to the lyrics? Am I weird? (Don't answer that.)

UPDATE: Yes, I know that Neil might just be messing with our minds.