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]
The quiet comes in waves.
A cracked pane light
Still catches the dust
Of that sticky air.
It coats the memory,
Makes it amber and slow.
A museum piece now,
But the humidity knows.
I walk through the kitchen,
My hands touch the counter,
And for one small second,
I am seven again.
The dimensions twist back,
The floor plan re-maps,
To the shadow that used to
Just fit in the gaps.
[PRE-CHORUS]
This twisted helix is the bone I grew.
It’s the color of the silence
When they finally left the room.
I keep running upstream,
Just to find the source of the stain,
This heavy blanket of
Unspeakable rain.
[CHORUS]
BURIED IN THE SOUND
OF A BROKEN CHILDHOOD!
I am built on the static!
A SALTED FOUNDATION!
Nothing grows true
When the ground is poisoned.
Just this hollow echo:
Screaming 'I despise you!'
Yeah, the roots are all tangled,
And they bleed the same color.
[VERSE 2]
My skin still remembers
The pressure in the dark.
The way my small hands shook,
Tracing the fragile arc
Of someone else's shadow
Pressed against the wall.
I learned how to disappear
Before I learned to crawl.
I trace the same fault line
Across every lover's chest,
Expecting the tremors,
Preparing for the test.
It’s not history now
It’s just heavy residue.
A whisper in the bloodstream,
Saying, “It belongs to you.
[PRE-CHORUS]
This twisted helix is the bone I grew.
It’s the color of the silence
When they finally left the room.
I keep running upstream,
Just to find the source of the stain.
[CHORUS]
BURIED IN THE SOUND
OF A BROKEN CHILDHOOD!
I am built on the static!
A SALTED FOUNDATION!
Nothing grows true
When the ground is poisoned.
Just this hollow echo:
Screaming 'I despise you!'
Yeah, the roots are all tangled,
And they bleed the same color!
[BRIDGE / BREAKDOWN]
I try to wash it out.
I try to drain the basin.
But the water is heavy,
It’s thick with the taste...
The taste of static.
The way the light broke...
I am not your ruin!
I AM NOT YOUR RUIN!
LET IT GO! LET IT GO!
[OUTRO]
Just the static bloom...
In a vacant room...
Now and forever...
The sticky air...
Now and forever...
