Coma White

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"Coma White"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Mechanical Animals
Released	September 14, 1998
Recorded	1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	5:38
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy, Zim Zum
Producer	Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson
Media

"Coma White" is the fourteenth track of the 1998 release Mechanical Animals. It is also the fourth and final single spawned from this album. It was only released promotionally and was followed by a music video. The song was inspired by a friend of Manson's who was addicted to drugs, and eventually killed herself. It is often considered Manson's most powerful song vocally and emotionally. In the Triptych, "Coma White" also serves as the sequel song to Coma Black.

Contents 1 Appearances 1.1 Albums 1.2 Singles 2 Versions 3 Music video 4 Track listing 4.1 Promotional 5 Bootlegs 6 Lyrics

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Albums

• Mechanical Animals
• The Last Tour on Earth (UK Version)

[edit] Singles

• "Coma White"

[edit] Versions

• "Coma White" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.
• "Coma White" (Radio Edit) — Appears on the "Coma White" promotional single.
• "Coma White Acoustic" — Appears on the "Coma White" promotional single and the UK version of The Last Tour on Earth.

[edit] Music video

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, features a twisted reenactment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Manson, portraying Kennedy, is seen with Coma White waving to his fans who are clearing way for the car. Halfway through the video Manson is shot, and eventually lays his head on Coma White's lap, dying. In the scenes following Manson is seen nailed to a wooden crucifix, similar to Jesus Christ, and is carried past the onlooking fans in the street.

The music video was first alluded to in a February 4, 1999 post by Manson on MarilynManson.net's message board, where Manson revealed "we are making the most beautiful and disturbing video we have ever done-- Coma White."^[1] Later in an August 16 post, Manson confirmed that MTV had received the video, but was uncertain if they would air it due to its content. He went on to assure that the video would be included with the then-upcoming home video God Is in the T.V..^[2]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Promotional

1. "Coma White" (Radio Edit) – 4:19

[edit] Bootlegs

• 1999-03-03 - Seattle, WA
• 1999-03-13 - Anaheim, CA
• 2008-01-20 - Miami, FL
• 2008-01-26 - Boston, MA
• 2008-01-27 - Philadelphia, PA
• 2008-01-30 - New York City, NY
• 2008-02-04 - Detroit, MA
• 2008-02-05 - Chicago, IL
• 2009-10-22 - Tokyo, Japan

[edit] Lyrics

    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
    A pill to make you anybody else
    But all the drugs in this world
    Won't save her from herself

Marilyn Manson singles
Commercial	Get Your Gunn (song) · Lunchbox (song) · Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song) · The Beautiful People (song) · Tourniquet (song) · Long Hard Road Out of Hell (song) · "The Dope Show" · "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" · "Rock Is Dead" · "Disposable Teens" · "The Fight Song" · "The Nobodies" · "Tainted Love" · "mOBSCENE" · "This Is the New Shit" · "Personal Jesus" · "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" · "Putting Holes in Happiness" · "We're from America" · "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon"
Promotional	Dope Hat (song) · Antichrist Superstar (song) · Man That You Fear (song) · Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (song) · "Coma White" · "Working Class Hero" · Thrift (song) · "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"