| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Stephen Bailey was a preacher. "No you don`t need a doctor, no one else can heal your soul" - who says something like that? "And I wish that I could help you with what you hope to find", but I will sit on my ass and take care of my everyday, instead of helping by just spending time with him. I`m a catholic, she is an atheist. The conversation about the reason of life wouldn`t make any sense, My reasons are useless for her, "kinda hard to believe". But what make sense today was two hotdogs, a glass of coke and two old episodes of "Two and a half Man" together. She left her room for 2 hours, we laught. As a father I cannot "get tired of waiting for a way to spend our time". Shit, I needed to step on it to understand Coma. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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First of all, this is a story told by someone in a coma, after a suicide attempt. Someone between life and death, who is experiecing calm and peace and sometimes bad memories. His situation, is better than staying alive. Someone who can`t handle his own feelings and the wolrd, expression of that is simple - this verse about clarity and wtf is going on, explains. He is asking for understanding. His world makes no sense, it`s a total mess. It is important, to take it as it is, cause without it, we will not understand last phrase. In between there is a low voice saying "help me", "bastard", "zap him again". It may be a symbol of his willing to live on some level, or his subconcious or maybe an other live thing inside of him, kid of demon. Woman voices are terryfing him, makes him want to go back to coma. They are telling Axl what to do, pissed of or nice. The last one is most important. It says "I love you" and its a biggest lie, another way to keep him submissive. Would you want to live without the faith in love? If you go back to the first song on the album, you will get it. He had really bad relation with his mother and it had impact on other women relations in his life. And last but really not least. IMO brilliant, an essence of feelings of a man with depression caused by other illness. Axl is a genius. He tells it in second person, cause he is really pissed of for being completely not understand and ignored. Starting from accusitions - first "you living like in a coma", - you are half blind, in your own world, with really, really weak arguments for staying alive, comparing to someone who has many thoughts about the sense of life. "Who I`m I to tell you" is really strong accusition. It means "who you are to tell me", and from now on Axl changes the story for second singular, like he would put someone in his shoes. The conversation about the sense of staying alive was dissapointment. BTW. please don`t try to sell your shit to people in trouble, it hurts. Really. Frieds stepped aside, its normal - nobody will stay forever and it makes him feel more guilty. Nobody took him to the doctor that could help. Best friend call would change the situation in one moment but the chance of call in that moment was really low. The decision has been made. After that, you bocome social and cool but it`s not a progress. It is a relief of someone who resigned, stopped to fight, decided to kill himself. It`s a "subtle sign". Last few verses are about the difference between someone like you and Axl - you will reach the point of breaking and you will live. Cause you are normal. You will heal your broken memories. Broken memories that you need to heal, would be just enough for somebody else to survive, somebody who doesn`t have even that. It shows a difference between someone twisted and someone normal. Song ends with a flat line. Just hear the guitar. _____________________________________________ The song broke my heart. My 14 years old daughter tried to commit suicide last year. Now she is better but still, "she doesn`t really want to live, ah" in this world. But I`m grateful for "Coma". I learned a bit. Again. Minimum expectations, manipulation, causing the feeling of guilt, showing that she is a problem for me. Maximum being as close as she wants, love, give a little signs that she is important and makes my life better with just being yourself. Cause she really is, like rare diamond. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Bogotazo:44617] In this song it means, when I just wanted somebody listen to me, nobody called, even my best friend. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[SquireOfSaskatoon:44616] IMO you are quite close. "Who I`m I to tell you" is a sarcastic way, to say "Who are you to tell me". I`m not surprised Axl is pissed off when someone tries to teach him about sense of life, having shitty reasons and shitty life, "living like in a coma" - not seeing, not feeling, just living. He countinues in second person, tells the rest of the story, until the suiside. People don`t understand, after the conversation he feels worse "left in a cold", he feels alone, stop answering calls. Doesn`t believe doctor would help, friends step aside. When he sad that nobody is leastening, best friend didn`t call, why would he? Sometimes after decision of suicied people becomig social because they feel relief, "no shit to lose". But it`s the last subtle sign, not a progress. The guitar at the end is a flat line. And Axl is a genius. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[SquireOfSaskatoon:44615] IMO you are quite close. "Who I`m I to tell you" is a sarcastic way, to say "Who are you to tell me". I`m not surprised Axl is pissed off when someone tries to teach him about sense of life, having shitty reasons and shitty life, "living like in a coma" - not seeing, not feeling, just living. He countinues in second person and it is the rest of the story, until the suiside. People don`t understand him, after the conversation he feels worse "left in a cold", he feels alone, stop answering calls. Doesn`t believe doctor would help, friends step aside. When he sad that nobody is leasing, best friend didnt call, why would he? Sometimes after decision of suicie people becomig social because the feel relief, "no shit to lose". But it`s the last subtle sign, not a progress. The guitar at the end is a flat line. And Axl is a genius. |
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