Songfacts®:

• Jack White said in NME magazine: "I'm jealous of how rap and hip-hop lyrics can get away with a lot more metaphors than the world I come from is allowed to get away with. The character in this song is bragging, but it's also self-depreciating at the same time."
• The song features some stand out piano playing by Nashville-based singer-songwriter Brooke Waggoner. Brooke won the Nashville Music Award for "NBN Emerging Artist" of the year in the fall of 2009 and her songs have been featured in TV shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Ghost Whisperer.
• The song finds White virtually rapping the lyrics. He told UK newspaper The Sun: "If I'd sat down and said I wanted the delivery of a Hip-Hop artist, I might not have succeeded. It just came out subconsciously. The White Stripes song 'Icky Thump' — 'Icky thump with a lump' — also sounds very much like a rap."
• White explained the song's meaning to The Sun: "I was thinking about Jay-Z and Kanye West and the freedom of expression they have that I don't have," he said. "It's about a character singing, (breaks into a rap) 'No one can blow the shows or throw the bones that break your nose like I can'. I was trying to make that statement braggadocious and self-effacing at the same time."