THE COMA is a side project from Tommy Gardner and Johnny Gardner, who both are members of the Los Angeles based band Machines of agony.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Ash in the mouth, a phantom taste
Of concrete dust, a wasted space
The ringing hum, a constant static
Ghosts of men in psychic attic
Another flash, a perfect frame
Engraved behind my fucked up name
Every breath, a shrapnel shard
Caught somewhere in my grey matter yard
[Pre-Chorus]
They tell me to forget the blast
But every pulse, a shadow cast
Pulling me back, into the haze
Lost inside their empty phrases
[Chorus]
THIS FUCKING WAR, IT LIVES IN ME!
A CYCLONE RIPPING, CAN'T BREAK FREE!
A FUNGAL SPREAD, BENEATH THE SKIN!
WHERE DOES THE REALITY BEGIN?!
THE LIGHT IS GONE, THE SOIL IS SICK!
ANOTHER PRAYER, ANOTHER PRICK!
I CAN'T ESCAPE THE GHOSTLY SCREAM!
DROWNING IN THIS GODDAMN DREAM!
[Verse 2]
They offer help, a sterile hand
To pull me to their sterile land
A porcelain smile, a hollow gaze
Drowning in these peaceful days
I walk among them, a spectral dread
With voices screaming in my head
The coffee's hot, the news is bland
A world I can't quite understand
My hands still twitch, for cold steel grip
A dead man's walk, a dying trip
[Pre-Chorus]
They tell me to forget the blast
But every pulse, a shadow cast
Pulling me back, into the haze
Lost inside their empty phrases
[Chorus]
THIS FUCKING WAR, IT LIVES IN ME!
A CYCLONE RIPPING, CAN'T BREAK FREE!
A FUNGAL SPREAD, BENEATH THE SKIN!
WHERE DOES THE REALITY BEGIN?!
THE LIGHT IS GONE, THE SOIL IS SICK!
ANOTHER PRAYER, ANOTHER PRICK!
I CAN'T ESCAPE THE GHOSTLY SCREAM!
DROWNING IN THIS GODDAMN DREAM!
[Bridge]
I tried to wash the grime away...
Found only shadows in the grey...
Fingernails clawing at the glass...
Watching my own damn life just pass...
Is this my penance, my fucking price?
To bleed out slowly, cold as ice?
The broken boys, the quiet ones...
Haunted by their silver guns...
A generation lost in fire...
Fueling some unseen pyre...
[Breakdown / Outro]
It lives... it lives... it stains...
Still here... in my head... the fucking blast...
The dust... the taste... the dead...
ALWAYS... ALWAYS... FUCK YOU ALL!
