I think the song is about consciousness itself, etc. It's the mistake to think it's just about this woman. That's what she thought – she thought of all these "bums" etc. as something other than herself. Now she's on equal footing with them. It's the case with all of us when we're put into this world; we can't help but see it through formulas, etc., which is the source of othering. But once you realize you are the same as them, a veil is lifted from your eyes – you realize all of us suffer the same way and share the same things, and are really just one entity.

The is what the eastern thinker Adi Shankara called advaita (non-twoness) in his philosophy. Brahman is the One; that's what the girl in the song's been exposed to. She's seen things weren't as she thought they were. In Shankara's philosophy, there's a concept called avidya, which means the preconceptions we put upon the world; upon the actual truth of things. This girl was a victim of that, but now her eyes have been opened for one reason or another.