This album has become my favorite thing to listen to when i'm on psychedelics. Through my trips i've created these surreal realities that I literally appear in every time I listen to a song, very visual and colorful, they feel so surreal yet more real than life. I kind of want to share what this song feels like to me.
Here's what I think, the title 'lion in a coma' is pretty much there to create dual meanings for the lyrics. I see this song in a 'lying in a coma' kind of way, but that's just me.
Everytime I hear this song I think of this psychotic-like state people find themselves in, when you've been alone for so long that you think you're going crazy, when your line of thought doesn't make sense to you, when you hear songs play in your mind, when you're on a psychedelic. when you're in a coma.
I think this song is about a man's amazing near-death experience while he's in a coma, choosing life over death.
I see this man lying in a coma, completely aware of himself but unable to move or even think properly, talking to himself in his mind while being in this psychedelic, near death coma world. The first verse is totally random and can be viewed as random thoughts that pop in his mind, these quick image flashes may be life flashing before his eyes. And all that goes through his mind is "what the fuck am i thinking?! It's wild in my head!" (this wilderness up in my head)
He might even have an old tune run through his mind during his thought shitstorm (this rhythm that's up in my head)
Then, at some point this man's thought slows down and he understands where he is. He is in a coma. But it's okay, his mind works, he's not crazy. Now it's just a matter of time until he gets better and is able to move again. But he wants to go home so bad, to get out of these hospital clothes and go back to his BEDROOM! But this moment seems to last forever, so long that he starts freaking out. Repeating things to himself to calm down, "i'm just lying in a coma, i'm just lying in a coma, ta tara tara tara ta ta..." humming a little melody to make time go by faster. "i'm just lying in a coma, i'm just lying in a coma, dun dum dum drum"
then all of a sudden MINDSHIFT (you know, like when you don't want to think about something and your mind is clear for a while - and then this freaking thought just jumps in your mind and starts a whole cycle of thinking about whatever) that's what it sounds like to me when these lyrics start
"Sometiiiiiimes the sun will shine, yes I am just doin fine. Sometimes i'm not aware where I am or what I care" (reflecting on his life perhaps)
So this man drifts back into his near death psychedelic coma state, the mind starts racing again, he's going deep into this other world
"PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T LEAAAVE ME" (realizes that he might not come out of the coma and just die, realizes he doesn't want to die, wants his mind (or spirit) to come back from the death)
"things that feel good, i've been lucky to feel good" (feeling good may refer to being alive, not worrying about death, this man starts appreciating life)
Then he sets his mind straight again realizes he's just in a coma, repeating it
Lying in a coma, lying in a coma, having brief quick thoughts of some things (like the fine aroma) but he keeps them out by repeating to himself that he's just in a coma, lying in a coma lying in a coma, he's afraid of going into the realm of death, he can't let his mind drift (reminds me a little of trying to stay out of a bad trip on acid)
so he goes on... repeating it to himself, hoping to stay alive, lying in a coma lying in a coma, lion in a coma, lying in a coma, lying in a coma, lying in a coma, lion in a coma, lion in a coma, lion in a coma?
don't keep a lion in a coma.
It's a pretty sad ending I think, because we don't know if this man got out of his coma. For all we know he's now a vegetable, with his mind trapped in his body set on this endless loop of thought. Lion in a coma.
listen to the song thinking the same way, tell me what you think
This album has become my favorite thing to listen to when i'm on psychedelics. Through my trips i've created these surreal realities that I literally appear in every time I listen to a song, very visual and colorful, they feel so surreal yet more real than life. I kind of want to share what this song feels like to me.
Here's what I think, the title 'lion in a coma' is pretty much there to create dual meanings for the lyrics. I see this song in a 'lying in a coma' kind of way, but that's just me. Everytime I hear this song I think of this psychotic-like state people find themselves in, when you've been alone for so long that you think you're going crazy, when your line of thought doesn't make sense to you, when you hear songs play in your mind, when you're on a psychedelic. when you're in a coma.
I think this song is about a man's amazing near-death experience while he's in a coma, choosing life over death. I see this man lying in a coma, completely aware of himself but unable to move or even think properly, talking to himself in his mind while being in this psychedelic, near death coma world. The first verse is totally random and can be viewed as random thoughts that pop in his mind, these quick image flashes may be life flashing before his eyes. And all that goes through his mind is "what the fuck am i thinking?! It's wild in my head!" (this wilderness up in my head) He might even have an old tune run through his mind during his thought shitstorm (this rhythm that's up in my head)
Then, at some point this man's thought slows down and he understands where he is. He is in a coma. But it's okay, his mind works, he's not crazy. Now it's just a matter of time until he gets better and is able to move again. But he wants to go home so bad, to get out of these hospital clothes and go back to his BEDROOM! But this moment seems to last forever, so long that he starts freaking out. Repeating things to himself to calm down, "i'm just lying in a coma, i'm just lying in a coma, ta tara tara tara ta ta..." humming a little melody to make time go by faster. "i'm just lying in a coma, i'm just lying in a coma, dun dum dum drum"
then all of a sudden MINDSHIFT (you know, like when you don't want to think about something and your mind is clear for a while - and then this freaking thought just jumps in your mind and starts a whole cycle of thinking about whatever) that's what it sounds like to me when these lyrics start "Sometiiiiiimes the sun will shine, yes I am just doin fine. Sometimes i'm not aware where I am or what I care" (reflecting on his life perhaps)
So this man drifts back into his near death psychedelic coma state, the mind starts racing again, he's going deep into this other world "PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T LEAAAVE ME" (realizes that he might not come out of the coma and just die, realizes he doesn't want to die, wants his mind (or spirit) to come back from the death) "things that feel good, i've been lucky to feel good" (feeling good may refer to being alive, not worrying about death, this man starts appreciating life)
Then he sets his mind straight again realizes he's just in a coma, repeating it Lying in a coma, lying in a coma, having brief quick thoughts of some things (like the fine aroma) but he keeps them out by repeating to himself that he's just in a coma, lying in a coma lying in a coma, he's afraid of going into the realm of death, he can't let his mind drift (reminds me a little of trying to stay out of a bad trip on acid) so he goes on... repeating it to himself, hoping to stay alive, lying in a coma lying in a coma, lion in a coma, lying in a coma, lying in a coma, lying in a coma, lion in a coma, lion in a coma, lion in a coma?
don't keep a lion in a coma.
It's a pretty sad ending I think, because we don't know if this man got out of his coma. For all we know he's now a vegetable, with his mind trapped in his body set on this endless loop of thought. Lion in a coma.
listen to the song thinking the same way, tell me what you think