I'm not really familiar with The White Stripes, so I can't relate to that.
However, it seems to me that this song deals with those strange people ("banging hard upon her crooked drum she feels them tearing down...") who believe in those ridiculous ("water... polluted by the candy factory lines") conspiracy theories. Those people blame those mythical ("someplace on the edge of town") political scientists that poison us all ("the government supplies the cocaine").
I'm not really familiar with The White Stripes, so I can't relate to that. However, it seems to me that this song deals with those strange people ("banging hard upon her crooked drum she feels them tearing down...") who believe in those ridiculous ("water... polluted by the candy factory lines") conspiracy theories. Those people blame those mythical ("someplace on the edge of town") political scientists that poison us all ("the government supplies the cocaine").