Jim Kerr recalled in '' 1000 UK Number 1 Hits '' why he used the melody , " I first heard the melody ( of She Moved Through The Fair ) a few days after the Enniskillen bombing ( when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh , killing 12 people and injuring at least 63 ) , and like everybody when you see the images I was sick . In the second part of the song , I 'm trying to relate to people in Northern Ireland who lost loved ones . I 'm trying to talk about the madness , the sadness and the emptiness . I 'm not saying I have any pearls of wisdom , but I have a few questions to ask "
Enniskillen bombing
Remembrance Day bombing
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