Where Are You? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ahlocian 

Cover art for Where Are You? lyrics by Coil

'Where are you? Are you hiding from me? Are you still looking for things that no-one else can see?'

  • Worrying if you still have cancerous cells or if they will reappear.
  • Metastasis - traveling through the body forming new tumors.

'Where are you? Are you in some place that we cannot reach?'

  • Non reachable tumor/cells.

'Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach?'

  • Moonlight = Internal
  • Beach = External

'Where are you? Are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate?'

  • Deeply impeded, hard or impossible to reach.

'Is the cage you love the home you also hate?'

  • Thrives/Lives in the body but also destroys it.

'Your fear of death attracts such strange objects'

  • Cancer spreading, hard to eliminate. As if it's scared of death it moves around the body.
  • Strange objects being medical instruments.

'Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you'

  • Chemo shrinking cancerous cells.

'Show yourself so the others may see you So the others may feed you They want to be near you'

  • Cells growing, spreading.

'If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function'

  • Killing the cells. Ending the illness.

'Poor little ghost boy Let me be your human toy'

  • It can be invisible but it takes control of the body.

'Where are you? No-one's seen you for years Have your wounds grown wings? Are you feasting on fears?'

  • Cancer reamerging and growing. Cells spreading for fear of death.

'I can see your dark corona is eating into you'

  • Cell becoming cancerous.

'Life lies with the scissors inside her The surgeon was a butcher'

  • The life/scissors are the cancer cells, cutting away the body.
  • Wounds from surgery.

'All of us are wounded, anaesthetised in A.E. Numbed by stuff we should not see'

  • Cancer patients on medicine. Distress from the ward.

'Each of us lies bleeding Our rivers intermingling'

  • Rivers of blood.

'I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage'

  • Death bed.

~ This may be an overly logical interpretation. At times I also thought it could relate to heroin addiction. Please let me know what you think.

My Interpretation