Tuesday, September 21, 2010

When Does Karma Kick In?


Karma Police : RadioHead


When does karma kick in? After you get to a certain age are eligible for Karma?
What age in your opinion is reasonable for Karma to occur?

Whats your earliest thought of a situation where you remember karma happening?

This song Karma Police By Radiohead has to be on my top ten songs. The first line, "Karma Police arrest this man" makes me ask instantly, what could this man have done, or what things have I done? Then a sudden frustration with understanding the man, with the lines "He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, He's like a detuned radio."

I love the imagery as well in the line, "Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party." You see how society is affected by history.

And then Karma yells, "This is what you get". And at this point in the song, Yorke's voice is so emotional, you feel relief singing, "This is what you get when you mess with us..."

By the end of the song, you realize things you may have said, things you may have done, "For a minute there,Ii lost myself, I lost myself....".
Great sad song...