| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Davos:45715] I disagree. I think the man and the women represent aspects of society that the narrator objects to as being harmful. The man is focused on numbers and possibly money and economics and drones on and on about them, explaining everything in those dehumanizing terms, comparing what he's saying to the boring, inhuman, insessant buzzing of a refrigerator or static of a detuned radio. The short haired women is like a fascist, maybe trying to control people to get them to conform to a certain ideology, suppressing who they really are and denying freedom of expression. I think of her as some kind of propagandist. They crash her party by openly refusing to conform. The narrator recognizes that there's not much he can do and is essentially powerless to stop them, so he hopes that karma ultimately gets them. But he starts to feel it's hopeless. He complains that he's doing all he can to resist, but he feels he has no choice but to give in and go along with them in order to survive--i.e., he's given all he can, but he's still on the payroll. He recovers from this moment of doubt and determines to continue to resist-- "phew, for a minute there, I lost myself." | |
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