In one interview Simone said this song is about a muslim woman who fell in love with "non-muslim" guy and got pregnant from him. Because of that her brother killed her to "wash away the shame" from their family. This case represents a whole bunch of unnecessary tragedies caused by fundamentalists and like the other parts of The Embrace That Smothers shows us that we must change our priorities and views and as they said in Consign to Oblivion "free ourself from madness".
In one interview Simone said this song is about a muslim woman who fell in love with "non-muslim" guy and got pregnant from him. Because of that her brother killed her to "wash away the shame" from their family. This case represents a whole bunch of unnecessary tragedies caused by fundamentalists and like the other parts of The Embrace That Smothers shows us that we must change our priorities and views and as they said in Consign to Oblivion "free ourself from madness".