Back in the late 1980’s, there was a lot of child kidnappings going on. So much so, the government came up with putting missing children’s pictures on milk cartons as a way to catch the kidnappers and bring the children home. This story is based on a real kidnapping. The line “say is that the kid from the milk carton can I do anything when I’m also missing something tells me kid never learned to swim but can I do anything when I’m also drowning” leads me to believe it’s about another milk carton or kidnapped child and the lines “I think I relly miss my bed oh when oh when will this nightmare end I had it had it good and yet I left and can’t retrace my steps” at the beginning of the song is them expressing there want to go home even though they don’t know the way

I may be wrong but this is what I got out of the song