Marilyn Manson: Coma White Meaning

Coma White 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...

1. ShallowJester

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   Nov 1st 2006 !⃝

   All these interpretations are pretty good. The "miracle mile" is a neighborhood in Los Angelas I think. If she is thinking about killing herself at her miracal mile, then maybe she is killing herself in the fake?
   
   Also, miracle mile is in a bill Joe song. In that song, they are throwing their worries to the wind when they are "driving the miracle mile". Maybe jumping would be her throwing her worries/life away.
2. toolscott

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   Sep 28th 2006 !⃝

   A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb, a pill to make you anybody else. It's about a way to escape. "there's a pill for that". Not dealing with life. Just kind of floating by, like I'm doing. It's a dead end street, but sometimes you just keep going even if there is no road. . But then again, in the video he recreated the kennedy assassination. So who knows with that dude.
3. Skull78

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   Aug 4th 2006 !⃝

   Coma white, a good one!
   
   My interpretation is a little off, but similar to others. I think it starts like a flashback. An angry adolescent, who is a goth, accepts drugs. She endures a whole day of abuse from the girls who want to make her look pretty, and take away her individuality. And abuse from boys beating on her for not looking like the other girls. Thus, they were from a perfect world, and threw her away, that very day...
   
   Personally I don't think I'm good at interpreting coma white, but I do know that I can relate to my interpretation...
4. anonymous

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   Jul 27th 2006 !⃝

   In my opinion coma white represents everything we grow dependant on; drugs, money, etc. But in the end coma white always goes away. The reason coma white might be named such is because, in a comatose state you are dependant of everyone and everything around you, you cannot move, nor speak, or even eat, so you must depend on people to hel you. White because it's a bleak colour and chances of getting the item you depnd on and need are bleak and futile.
   
   To get into more detail, take the album mechanical album as a whole. Notice the lyrics are divided up into two sections, one is for alpha, and one is for omega, two different people, with different stories. Omega, meaning the last, seems to be a celebrity of some sort who is tired of the fame and glory and grows bitter. All songs asociated with the omega sector are bitter and in essence he's holding onto his last (omega's meaning) threads of whatever. Alpha being first, comes from another planet, only to find his first (alpha meaning) look of earth a sad a bleak place, except for coma white. Coma white is personified as a female character that alpha grows dependant on, I think overall she symbolizes everything you want, but can't have. In the end alpha can't have coma white, as she is too far gone. The only question I have about the album is if and where omega and alpha's story intertwine, they should, I just can't find it.
   But that's just my take on the album...
5. Nightmare12

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   Jul 12th 2006 !⃝

   It means that she was once a perfect person then her life got all shaken up. She started taking drugs and now she has fucked her life up and nothing can help her. She is going to end it all the stuff she has done she looked back and she is going to kill herself by jumping off the bridge.
6. anonymous

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   Mar 17th 2006 !⃝

   Okay, in my opinion this song is simply about how people will attempt to numb their pain with various activities. "All the drugs in this wolrd" stands for these said sedatives whether they be drugs,books, music, sex, alcahol, etc. Whatever people use to escape metaphoricly. "Lost all her dolls" could be a refrence to the loss of ones innocence,and realization that these things will not necessarily save you. But I read somewhere that this line was a refrence to a film called "Valley of Dolls" (I think that was the title), and the "dolls" could simply symbolize drugs.
   
   The "her mouth was an empty cut/she was waiting to fall/ just bleeding like a polaroid" lines are a little bit harder for me to "define". Polaroids are those instant cameras, eh? Well, maybe this means that Coma White is so lost in her past and in herself, that she is only simply able to think about images and memmories from her past. She knew that all good things come to an end, so "she was waiting to fall".
   
   Manson himself once also described Coma White as being: "a girl, a drug, an emotion, or you". Something along that line.

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