Karma Houdini/Music

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Death Metal. No Seriously. Gore related songs never reveal that the murders getting any comeuppance. Each and every song ends with the killer continuing his crimes.
  • Bob Dylan's song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" tells the story of a wealthy white man who kills a poor black woman in 1960s Baltimore, and receives a six-month sentence in punishment.
  • "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club.
  • Billy Preston's 1972 song "Will It Go Round In Circles":

I got a story, it ain't got no morals
Let the bad guy win every once in awhile
I got a story, it ain't got no morals
Let the bad guy win every once in awhile....

I had my fun, I'm going back to the place I don't call home
There's no one there who waits for me, but you won't hear me moan
My ex-wives all sue me, and with half my kids in jail
I'll still come out laughing, coz me? I never fail, loser!

  • "Lay Me Down" by Dirty Heads is about a couple that robs a bank, shoots a sherrif who's chasing after them, then lives happily ever after drinking tequila on the beach.
  • The narrator of the song "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence.