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Karma
by Rick Springfield
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Overall Rating:
3.4933
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
Karma Lyrics
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- My father was too weak to parry the blade
- As death's scythe swept through the house one night
- When we were busy doing other things
- Dust filled his mouth and stopped his breath
- And darkness took his soul in this familiar place
- His body, wasted by the sickness
- His spirit weary from the battle
- He spoke to me, forever his son
- Of all things save death:
- I longed to face it with him
- But seeing his fear
- I feared to speak of it
- And though we both saw death's dark irresistible form
- In the far corner
- We talked instead of evening shadows
- On bedroom walls
- And so it went
- There were no proud and profound last words
- No bright ringing final moment of clarity
- He just died
- We kissed his still warm face
- And promised forever
- The cold wind blew through the trees in my father's yard
- And I looked for meaning
- His hair was bible black, face like a priest
- His fingers clutched the precious box and silent as a dream
- He hid behind the dark sunglasses
- You caught your breath
- You thought he was beautiful
- You didn't hear his silent scream
- As he spread the dead man's ashes
- Your always trying to find your worth
- In the eyes of someone new
- You may not think you need this baby but I think you do
- You need Religion Of The Heart, Religion Of The Heart
- (deep in your system)
- You're just searching in the dark
- For a reason to believe
- You need Religion Of The Heart
- You raise your glass, you drink their wine
- But you're still thirsty all the time
- No miracles tonight, and you'll skip the midnight masses
- It'll be okay in the cool clear, bright light of the day
- But you just seem so scattered
- As though nothing mattered baby
- You're always trying to heal yourself in someone else's skin
- Turn the thieves out of the temple baby and let it in
- You need Religion Of The Heart, Religion Of The Heart
- (deep in your system)
- You're just searching in the dark
- For a reason to believe
- You need Religion Of The Heart
- Oh, you think that I am only joking, and it all comes down to nothing
- And I'm just talking to your fear but I 'm not
- No, I'm not, and you stand in the field of fire
- You need Religion Of The Heart, Religion Of The Heart
- (deep in your system)
- You're just searching in the dark
- For a reason to believe
- You need Religion Of The Heart
- Religion Of The Heart
- The father giveth, and the father taketh away
- Johanna prays in her bed
- He drinks his beer to the TV chatter
- Thinks dark thoughts in his head
- When the house that he keeps with his hard won pay
- Is finally asleep after his brutal day
- He turns his eyes on his beautiful prize
- Johanna watches her door open just a crack
- And a hand that once held her runs down the length of her back
- Her fallen angel lies down on her bed
- So much confusion in her beautiful head
- Johanna closes her eyes
- In a house full of secrets the truth doesn't matter
- Johanna buries her shame and dreams of redemption
- They just scatter, she grows numb to the pain
- She can't remember how it was before
- And she doesn't know who she is anymore
- She's in disguise as his Beautiful Prize
- Johanna watches her life from the outside
- And she dreams that one day she'll fly free from this mess
- She's a hawk trying to soar with a broken wing
- And she doesn't talk anymore about anything
- She just closes her eyes
- She just can't stand his anger, she just can't bear his heat
- She takes a long hard look at life on the street, yeah
- In a house full of secrets the truth doesn't matter
- And any dreams of salvation, they just shatter
- Johanna watches the world from the outside,
- And she dreams of the day she'll fly free from this mess
- She doesn't know what she's waiting for
- Cause there's nothing left in this house anymore
- And in his eyes she's just a Beautiful Prize
- Oh, Johanna just a Beautiful Prize...
- Yeah, Johanna...
- Oh, Hanna...
- I drop a stone into the ocean
- Every choice another turn of the screw
- Another wheel set in motion
- With every single thing I do
- It's there in the air that I breathe
- It's in my whisper and scream
- Inside everything I believe
- And it's all gonna come around someday
- As the smallest stream runs to a river
- And every river runs to the sea
- So every little bit of love I give to another
- You know that I believe it comes back to me
- There is no absolution whether I'm the garden or the rose
- If I ain't part of the solution, yeah you know how that goes
- You can always leave but you bring it all back home someday
- As the smallest stream runs to a river
- And every river runs to the sea
- So every little bit of love I give to another
- You know that I believe it comes back to me
- Every single thing I say, everyone that I betray
- Any love that I take when I do not make it in return
- Every thing I do and every time I've been unfaithful too
- All the things that I believe are lessons I must learn
- As the smallest stream runs to a river
- And every river runs to the sea
- So every little bit of love I give to another
- You know that I believe it comes back to me
- As the smallest stream runs to a river
- And every river runs to the sea
- So every little bit of love I give to another
- You know that I believe it comes back to me
- So there I stood, square on my side of the great divide
- A message came across a void
- And for the first time in my life
- I'm awake, I'm alive
- I thought I was immune to this
- 'Til I felt the static charges in the air
- I touch you, you're a live wire
- You're the raw fire burning in my heart
- And it took me by surprise, that's no lie
- You know you are, you are a sharp, Shock To My System
- A spark, a real shock
- You know you are, you are a sharp, Shock To My System
- You start I can't stop
- You taught me how to listen, Shock To My System
- My soul, my skin, you plug me in
- And all of my pain is gone just like it never was
- For the first time in my life I know what I feel
- Now every time we touch I'm caught off my guard
- That's no lie
- You know you are, you are a sharp, Shock To My System,
- A spark, a real shock
- You know you are, you are a sharp, Shock To My System
- You start I can't stop
- You taught me how to listen Shock To My System
- Shock To My System
- Shock To My System
- You know you are, you are a sharp, Shock To My System
- You start I can't stop...
- So this is the cage that I built
- Why I built it I don't know
- It's bars made of anger and guilt, no lock
- But somehow it just wouldn't let me go
- All hail the messenger of love
- I got your message loud and clear
- Now I'm hungry to be healed
- And you can't, you can't keep me away
- I'm Free
- When we are one, I am complete
- I'm Free
- And I'm undone and I will be healed in your eyes
- I had to close a door in my life for another one to open
- So I, I could go through, though I had no guiding light
- And no signs somehow it still lead me to you
- I learned a lesson here in love
- And it's ringing loud and clear
- Now I'm ready to reveal all the things
- That before I could never say
- I'm Free
- When we are one, I am complete
- I'm Free
- And I'm undone and I will be healed in your eyes
- All hail the messenger of love
- I got your message loud and clear
- Now I'm hungry to be healed
- And you can't, you can't keep me away
- When we are one, I am complete,
- And I'm undone, and I will be healed in your eyes
- When we are one, I am complete,
- And I'm undone, and I will be healed in your eyes...
- I'm Free...
- In my perfect world
- There's no need to right the wronged
- Laid down my burden
- I know I did not carry the weight
- Not sure to who responsibility belonged
- I turned a blind eye
- While waiting for the hand of fate to still the waters
- Heal all the broken hearts
- And hope it could be done without a sacrifice
- And maybe I just wouldn't pay the price
- I've fought this long enough
- Now I send the Prayer to heaven for the chance to be
- A better man than the man I see
- I send the Prayer to heaven, lay your hands on me
- I ain't a saint but to this I swear I send the Prayer
- And now I feel all I can do is not enough
- My Rome is burning and I'm standing at the deep abyss
- But every passion started with an act of love
- And every act of love, started with a single kiss
- Father, father your gift was my world of light
- And I've betrayed you with a single Judas kiss
- I've been my own executioner
- But it's not just me anymore
- Now I send the Prayer to heaven for the chance to be
- A better man than the man I see
- I send the Prayer to heaven, lay your hands on me
- I ain't a saint but to this I swear
- Burn my wasted pride
- Open your heart to this
- There's a voice that's crying somewhere
- Deep inside my soul for shelter
- Now I send the Prayer to heaven for the chance to be
- A better man than the man I see
- I send the Prayer to heaven, lay your hands on me
- I ain't a saint but to this I swear
- Now I send the Prayer to heaven for the chance to be
- A better man than the man I see
- I send the Prayer to heaven, lay your hands on me
- I ain't a saint but to this I swear I send the Prayer...
- Now I send a Prayer to heaven...
- I can see her at her windows watching
- Locked away inside her skin
- I can see her but I can't get to her
- She won't come out, and she won't let me into
- The White Room (she's living in)
- Lying alone 'til she comes undone
- In The White Room
- She burns for the real thing
- But it won't come
- In her head is the same obsession
- And all the bottles and pills won't heal her heart
- She heard his last confession
- Every word just tears her apart
- In The White Room (locked away)
- Doing time 'til her time is done
- In The White Room there's so much to say
- But the words won't come
- Come back to the land of the living
- When you gonna break that chain
- There's much too much that you're leaving
- And you're never gonna stop the rain
- In The White Room
- Waiting for the call that never comes
- In The White Room, she waits
- Look at something long enough you'll find
- That the splinters and the cracks begin to show
- I'll be the first in line when the walls start falling
- And she lets go of
- The White Room (it's late)
- Living alone only makes you numb
- In the White Room
- She burns for the real thing but it won't come
- Come back to the land of the living
- When you gonna break that chain
- There's much too much that you're leaving
- And you're never gonna stop the rain
- In The White Room (she's living in)
- Doing time 'til her time is done
- In The White Room she burns
- In The White Room (it's late)
- Lying alone till she comes undone
- In The White Room she waits
- In The White Room...
- He lifted her face from the pillow and said, ";Baby such is life";
- And then he pushed his suitcase out through the door
- And give'm something to talk about
- The door slammed, left a scar
- She'd be damned she could see him in his car
- So much for marriage and the good, good wife
- Well, maybe it's a fact of life
- But IN veRonicA'S HEAD the wheels were burning
- Turning out of frustration
- Veronica's bed mocked every private
- Thing she said to the bastard
- She dyed her hair black in the bathroom mirror
- He'd liked it blonde on his wife
- An act of independence, a small victory
- Hey, it was something to shout about
- Cause at night, she'd crack
- She'd feel his strong fingers raking down her back
- She'd wake up angry, but turned on like a light
- Yeah maybe it's a fact of life
- But IN veRonicA'S HEAD the wheels were burning
- Turning out of frustration
- Veronica said, she would never be the same, no
- But IN veRonicA'S HEAD, the fields were burning
- Burning down the destruction
- She turns around, he's there
- Confusing her with his promises
- And crying on the telephone
- She twists and she turns in circles
- With all of her strength, she breaks free
- She stumbles and she nearly falls
- But IN veRonicA'S HEAD the wheels were burning
- Turning out of frustration
- Veronica said she would never be the same, no
- But IN veRonicA'S HEAD the fields were burning
- Burning down the destruction
- Veronica's bed, she lies there listening
- Late at night to her heartbeat, Oooh
- The wheels are turning
- And IN veRonicA'S HEAD the fields are burning
- The wheels are turning
- The fields are burning
- I see her there in her plain print dress and her fading youth
- Something about her opens up my soul
- Something about her speaks the truth
- When the sky is falling
- She makes the world go away baby and I tell the truth
- There's a plainness and a sameness to her touch
- Oh yeah and it's beautiful
- I love an Ordinary Girl
- Oh she's just an Ordinary Girl
- I say I love you I know it's just an ordinary sound
- We make love in our ordinary house
- Yeah it's built on common ground and we know it baby
- We go out walking on an Friday night in ordinary town
- There's a sameness and a plainness to it all
- Oh yeah and it's beautiful
- I love an Ordinary Girl
- Yeah she's just an Ordinary Girl
- Another day, another battle
- We shake the cage, our sabers rattle
- Nothing that matters comes easy
- Nothing that comes easy ever really matters
- Oh (everything I am) she's an Ordinary Girl (anything I plan)
- I love her (for everything that I stand)
- She's an Ordinary Girl (I'm just an ordinary man)
- Yeah she's (in everything I do) just an Ordinary Girl
- (In everything that's true) I love her (in everything I plan)
- Just an Ordinary Girl (I'm an ordinary man)...
- I tell you honestly,
- Don't you go and throw your heart away
- I know it's so hard to do
- You've got to let go when you want to hold on
- I know how much you miss him celebrate what you had
- Don't cry about the things left unsaid
- It'll do no good
- You look for mercy and a meaning somewhere
- You know that the hurting won't go
- 'Til you walk through the fire
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith stand up and face the day
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith, nobody can make you stay
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith
- Maybe love will find it's way back into your life
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Stand up, don't you fall
- You just take good care of where you are
- You're thinking life's through with you
- That's not what he'd want or what you should do
- I know you loved him baby celebrate who he was
- I know you know you've got to go on and live your life
- Go down to the river of the spirit that runs through you
- And lay yourself down in the healing waters
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith stand up and face the day
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith, nobody can make you stay
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith
- Maybe love will find it's way back into your life
- Love is a healer
- There is no purpose served in holding on
- Love is a healer
- There is no understanding why
- Love is a healer
- There is no sin in you that brought this to your door
- My love, it just is
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- Here's my heart my love is in it
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith stand up and face the day
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith, nobody can make you stay
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith
- Maybe love will find it's way back into your life
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith stand up and face the day
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith, nobody can make you stay
- It's gonna take an Act Of Faith
- Maybe love will find it's way back into your life...
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