Culture Club – Karma Chameleon

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Culture Club – Karma Chameleon.
Album: Colour by Numbers.
Released: 1983

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

The song won Best British Single at the 1984 Brit Awards. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation’s 9th favorite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

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The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart, after “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”. The record stayed at number one for six weeks and became the UK’s biggest-selling single of the year 1983, selling 955,000 copies (according to Official Charts Company sales data confirmed in March 2021 for the Channel 5 show Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs). To date, it is the 38th-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK, selling over 1.52 million copies.

The harmonica part was played by Judd Lander, who had been a member of Merseybeat group The Hideaways in the 1960s. The song was originally to be called “Cameo Chameleon”; the band was recorded in interviews in mid-1983 stating this was to be the title of their next single.

Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Lyrics
Dessert loving in your eyes all the way
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 sale 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 green
Didn’t you hear your wicked words every day
And you used to be so sweet I heard you say
That my love was an addiction
When we cling, our love is strong
When you go, you’re gone forever
You string along, you string along
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 green
Every day is like survival
You’re my lover, not my rival
Every day is like survival
You’re my lover, not my rival
I’m a man without conviction
I’m a man who doesn’t know
How to sale 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 green
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 green
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 green
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 green

Songwriters: George Alan O’dowd / Jonathan Aubrey Moss / Michael Emile Craig / Roy Ernest Hay / Phil Pickett
Karma Chameleon lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

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