Lyrics for Karma Police as interpreted by piesupreme

Karma Police Lyrics
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 what you'll get
This is what you'll get
This is what you'll 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

This is what you'll get
This is what you'll get
This is what you'll get
When you mess with us

For a minute there
I lost myself
I lost myself

Phew, for a minute there
I lost myself
I lost myself

For a minute there
I lost myself
I lost myself

Phew, for a minute there
I lost myself
I lost myself

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Don Jerone
12-14-2001

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Can somebody tell what this wonderful song is about?

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OwnPersonalDemon
01-08-2002

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Its just about them not liking certain people, sounds like their in a rage and then calms down-"for a minute there, I lost myself"- and regains his cool.

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Kilgore
01-10-2002

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I believe that Thom said in an interview that the idea for this song started on tour. Whenever someone would do something not-nice, another band-member would say "be careful, or the karma police will get you". I think the song just grew out of that idea.

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mo0stah
01-14-2002

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This song was originally about the tour and things not happening according to plan. Otherwise that, what does it mean to you? To me, since I find everyone not of my specifications, this song has great meaning to me. Throught the eerie sounds of the distant guitar to the chilling sounds of Thoms voice, this is just a beautifully masterpiece of wonderful lyrics anyone who thinks for themself could come to love.
Listen and Feel.

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louisrolfe
01-16-2002

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I dont truly understand this song but i agree with some of the ideas mentioned above.

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lostchild
01-20-2002

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it's from the idea "the karma police will get you". The last part of "For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself ", Thom added that because during shooting the video he fainted from carbon monoxide exposure or something like that.

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cactus
02-25-2002

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It's like hating to be hateful... I donīt know. It seems to be about things you don't like but you do, about being robbed and arrested by yourself. Karma is like that: balance.

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necessity
03-01-2002

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i always thought that it was about condemning people for everyday things. mostly that idea applies to where it says "and we just crashed her party" because they're punishing her in a way that would probably get them punished. that was just my initial reaction....

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rainbow8711
04-17-2002

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well i have known and loved this song i dunno, FOREVER and i have just always taken it to mean that what goes around comes around, and that bad people --"arrest this girl her hitler hairdo is making me feel ill"--, will eventually get whats coming to them.
luv Lou xxx

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Fear_Of_Mole_Rats
04-23-2002

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I think its about hating people for being them... I hate preps for being preppy... >=P

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AGirlOnline
04-23-2002

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I think this is one of my favorite Radiohead songs. I think this song is talking about things that you think in your head that you want to get out but you cant. Im not sure, I think it is about getting whats comming to you.

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icedfire477
04-23-2002

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In my opinion this is the best song ever, its about how everything comes around goes around, and that the karma police will get all of the people who upset you. It makes you think about how he can be mean now, but the karma police will get him later. And I think the "for a minute I lost myself" is when he realizes that hes being mean and has to stop

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mbc4ny
04-23-2002

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it seems to me like the song is intentionally self-defeating in order to exaggerate the criticisms people make of others to the extent that they seem ridiculous. the first stanza demonstrates complaints that people have in reference to others. the second stanza then demonstrates how people are unwilling to accept blame for their own actions. it seems to suggest that despite his actions, society holds him down. then, at the end of the song he realizes how easy it is for a person to get caught up in himself and realizes that he has been wrong in criticizing others so harshly.

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thom yorke
05-03-2002

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This song interpretation system has to be the funniest bloke in town. I'm laughing my ass off at these interpretation.
Karma Police is about the time when I ran Ed around the drumsets. He slipped and fell in. Instantly I screamed "You're it" and ran away. He wanted to yell "Bloody wanker" but Freudian slipped "Karma Police" instead.

In all due seriousness, this is about Molly Bloom. She's making me feel so ill, dear Molly in perpetual bed, I feel as though I need a cardiac arrest from crashing her dinner party. Thank god we're potty trained.

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Wambli23
05-06-2002

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what the fuck baby lick my crack


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Wambli23
05-06-2002

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what the fuck baby lick my crack


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thom yorke
05-07-2002

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Lick your own crack, you beastly bollocks!

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skunker
05-11-2002

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jove w... what nonsense it that !! could you all guy be serious for a while ?

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runningboy
05-13-2002

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hey all you out there you want to know the meaning of this son. well this song is about a person or persons that
that are angry. at first they don't understand the man, he talks in math means that they don't and they are outsiders. second the girl makes them mad so they crash her party, and they are saying that she mad them mad too. because they are mad enough to mention her hitler hairdo


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roger wilco
05-13-2002

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this guy claiming to be
"thom yorke"
definitely has some identity issues.

dude, go find yourself.

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thom yorke
05-14-2002

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Oh! Oh! What have we here? Mr "I am a lame-oh computer game-oh"

Go choke your monkey over another latex babe, loser.





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Ardnaxela
05-18-2002

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From this song I always got a sense that it was about materialism, and trends, and fashion, and a hatred and fear of these things and the mindless tools they turn everyone into. "Hitler hairdo" - I think of Hitler, and people blindly following him, and apply that to a hairdo - people blindly following trends, whether they make sense or not.

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Ardnaxela
05-18-2002

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oops, almost forgot about the karma part! i guess, money ("the payroll") can only take you so far, your actions catch up with you in the end.

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treestump
05-25-2002

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whenever I'm sitting in math class trying to understand what the hell my teacher is talking about, the first line of the song comes to mind

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rbalwys7
05-26-2002

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the song is mocking the "Karma Police" from Britain... in saying you better watch out or the karma police will getcha

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