sounds of memories
My daughter Billie (15yo) introduced me to a lot of music in the last couple of years. My Chemical Romance. The Used. Nine Inch Nails (which begat Android Lust, but not through her). And Marilyn Manson. I'd not heard of the formers, but Marilyn Manson had already made headlines. From repeating assaultings on my ears of her music being blared through the computer speakers from sites like MySpace, they began to take on a certain flavour. There were some songs that I just could not stand and would grit my teeth during their play. And there were others that weren't so bad; I liked the music and the lyrics weren't that bad.
And then I heard Coma White. I could not believe it was from Marilyn Manson; it didn't sound like any of his other works. This song was "normal". It had no swearing and the music wasn't some pounding, brain-mushing abuse of drums and guitars and vocal chords. So I put it on my MP3 player and that's when I heard the lyrics. It took everything for me not to cry on the city bus. Specifically it's the chorus that gets to me. I think I will forever equate Coma White with my daughter Billie from the age of thirteen on.
Coma White
by Marilyn Manson
There's something cold and blank behind her smile
She's standing on an overpass
In her miracle mile
[coma:]
"You were from a perfect world
A world that threw me away today
Today to run away"
A pill to make you numb
A pill to make you dumb
A pill to make you anybody else
But all the drugs in this world
Won't save her from herself
Her mouth was an empty cut
And she was waiting to fall
Just bleeding like a polaroid that
Lost all her dolls
[coma:]
"You were from a perfect world
A world that threw me away today
Today to run away"
A pill to make you numb
A pill to make you dumb
[chorus repeat]
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an acoustic version (guitar)