Karma Chameleon Lyrics Meaning

To date it is the 31st best selling single of all time in the uk selling 1 49 million copies there.

Karma chameleon lyrics meaning. In the uk karma chameleon became the second culture club single to top the uk singles chart and it remained there for six weeks in september and october 1983 it was the uk s biggest selling song of the same year. The word karma is often described as what comes around goes around or what you reap you shall sow karma. Basically if you aren t true if you don t act like you f.

1983 karma chameleon lyrics. It s a period piece set in mississippi 1870 although it was actually filmed on the river thames in england. Red gold and green red gold and green i like the explanation someone else gave about red gold and green being a symbol of political opinions rastafarian etc being a source of conflict.

The video for karma chameleon was directed by peter sinclair and shot on a steamboat. Well i am not sure of boy george s spiritual beliefs but all i could really offer here is a reader and listener reaction to the lyrics. Boy george became one of the most iconic popstars of his generation when culture club burst onto the scene in the early 80s.

There s a loving in your eyes all the way if i listen to your lies would you say i m a man a man without conviction i m a man a man who doesn t know how to sell to sell a contradiction you come and go you come and go karma karma karma karma karma chameleon you come and go you come and go loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams red gold and green red gold and. I m not really concerned about the meanings of the lyrics but the music sounds like a song that. George is an anachronism in the video with fingerless gloves and multicolored hair that would not have appeared in mississippi at that time.

Their song karma chameleon was a huge hit around the world and boy george s androgynous appearance and soulful voice inspired many artists and helped further the new romantic movement. Boy george explained in an interview. The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have the fear of standing up for one thing.

If i listen to your lies would you say i m a man without conviction i m a man who doesn t know how to sell a contradiction. Desert loving in your eyes all the way. In many ways the couple.