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Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics 14 years ago
First of all, OK Computer is by FAR the best album made
This being said I want to comment on this song in particular. I think this song is about the warped values of society nowadays.

'karma police
arrest this man
he talks in maths,
he buzzes like a fridge
he's like a detuned radio

karma police
arrest this girl,
her hitler hairdo,
is making me feel ill,
and we have crashed her party'

This is to illustrate how absurd nowadays values are. I mean seriously you guys, I heard in America (thank God i don't live there' someone won a courtcase for getting unhealthy from Mc danolds food. Im sorry, but isn't getting obisitas your own damn fault. Same here, can we arrest people for having a Hitler hairdo, while you are the one crashing a party? Is this justice?


this is what you get
this is what you get
this is what you get
when you mess with us

karma police
i've given all i can
it's not enough
i've given all i can
but we're still on the payroll

In this part York tries to break out of society. He tries to get off the payroll and live a live with 'decent' values, but he doesn't manage to

for a minute there
i lost myself
i lost myself
for a minute there
i lost myself
i lost myself
i lost myself
i lost myself
i lost myself
i lost myself.

Here York says that while he is trying not to conform, it is getting really hard keeping his own values. If you are surrounded by people who have a strange view on morality, it is hard not to get that same view. He almost lost hisself by believing in mind-twisted principles, but fortunately he did not...

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