I'm pretty sure everyones spot on,
I think its more or less a parody of the adult life.
When were younger, we have dreams,
We play were innocent
Find comfort in the smallest things like playing under a table but as we get older, it becomes routine,
Those dreams, with our younger selves vanish
Soon we become like Ants marching,
Ants of course are drones,
Servents to the queen, and perhaps the queen being that which is hinted in the verse about the highway. The queen is that destination we are headed to, that nameless goal that these people have, that everyone on that highway seems to want to get to. The candyman tempting that sweettooth is a reminder of all the things we wanted to do, that buisness man on that highway could look at the candyman as his childhood dream of becoming a painter, maybe he passes a billboard seeing art school advertised, and its that billboard that becomes his candyman, reminding him of how good sugar tastes tempting his inner most urges. But he puts them in a locked box and forgets about them, fearing wieght gain, fearing failure.
In all I agree, its meant to say:: What happened to us, we had all these dreams and here we are like ants marching, we had all these dreams, and were just ignoring them, and we keep ignoring them until we just up and die.
Id go as far to say its also a metaphor for that classic kid with a magnifying glass on a hot summer day, burning ants. Maybe what he's trying to get at, by following your dreams you can be that kid, burning the ants, burning the flock that has no direction, I think he uses aunts because without mentioning the kid with the magnifying glass, that image still comes into mind, because our younger selves would cry and spit in our faces if they saw us now, ants marching, single goaled drones.
I think that makes sense.
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