i need help, with the song coma

[catcherintherye]

ok, i have to do something in sckool with a song, so i ahve to know what the song 'coma' is about, if u guyz could help me out it would be awesome

[Estranged]

Its pretty self explanatory, its pretty much about a person slipping into a coma and the person battling his inner self on whether or not he wants to stay (live, conscious) or go (die or be in a coma).  At least that's how i perceive the song.

[2NaFish]

www.gnrinfo.tk

[Estranged]

Link doesnt work for me

[SweetChildO'Mine]

it does work for me! by the way - love that song!

[Asshole Rose]

Slash: I wrote some really cool shit when I was high. There's a song called "Coma", a long song, really heavy, and I wrote that loaded.

Duff: We have actually got this song calld "Girth"... Well, it's not going to be called "Girth" on the album, it'll get changed, but it's such a heavy song we call it "Girth" for now. It's named after this guy West [Arkeen], who writes with us sometimes. He's a real little fucker, right? but his dick, it's only about this long but it's like this wide, man! so he got the girth, right? so we call this song "girth"...'

Axl: It's like 11 minutes and 45 seconds long, with no chorus. And I think there was only like one verse that somewhat repeats itself. It's Slash's baby - it's his monster. The song used to be called Girth.

Izzy: It's fuckin' 15 minutes long. And I still don't know it, man. I have to take a special chord chart with me whenever we play it. There's like 50 chords at the end of it and I just can't follow them.

Axl: Writing "Coma" on "Use Your Illusion I" was so heavy I'd start to write and I'd just pass out. I tried to write that song for a year, and couldn't. I went to write it at the studio and passed out. I woke up two hours later and sat down and wrote the whole end of the song, like, just off the top of my head. It was like, don't even know what's coming out, man, but it's coming. I think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma". It just poured out. I thanked Slash for that, because I used to curse him, going, "Man, that son of a bitch has written this thing and I've got to write to it and don't know what to write." It was so hard; it made me feel like, "I don't know how to write, I should just quit." But I finally did write it, and I ended up feeling a lot better about a lot of situations that I expressed in that song.

Slash: I like "Coma" a lot. It's got a defibrillator in it - you know, the instrument that starts your heart when it's stopped. And there's some EKG beeps too. We were just fucking around, but the song is heavy, and Axl's vocals are gorgeous - I mean really amazing.

Axl: I started writing about when I OD'ed 4 years ago. And the reason I OD'ed was cos of stress - I couldn't take it. And
I just grabbed this bottle of pills, in an argument, and just gulped them down. And I ended up in the hospital. But I liked that I wasn't in the fight anymore. And I was fully concious that I was leaving. I liked that. But then I go - all of the sudden my first real thoughts were that 'ok, you havn't toured enough, the records not gonna last, it's gonna be forgotten, listen man, you have work to do. Get out of this!' And I went 'no', and I woke up, and pulled myself out of it.
But in the describing of that, some people could take it wrong, and think this means 'go put yourself into a coma'. And, so, it's really tricky, and I'm still playing with the words, to figure like, how to show some hope in there.

Duff: "Coma" is monstrous!

Slash: Mike put something on the little rhythm part between the chords. I don't know what he used. I was going for a certain kind of a sound. Since I don't use effects, I don't know anything about them, except for echoes. I told him what I wanted, and he managed to pull it out of his rack somehow.

Gilby: "Coma" [gave me most trouble] without doubt. I still don't know it. It's like this 15- or 20-minute song with no
repeats. Oddly enough, I really love playing "Coma" because it's different every time. I also like "Pretty Tied Up" and "Locomotive." I like playing the fast, hard ones.

gnrinfo.tk

[axlstwin]

Asshole you rock!

[monom]

Lol At first i though you had written "You rock my asshole!". Dunno where that came from, but yes, nice Asshole! That MAY be misunderstood... :P

[Asshole Rose]

lol

[user FKA webmoster]

Is Coma on Live Era? I checked on itunes and amazon and its not listed as on the album at those places but at http://www.gnrinfo.tk, they have it listed as the 12th song on disc 1: http://home.no.net/dalgnr/info/songinfo/le8793.htm

[Rock Diva]

Duff: We have actually got this song calld "Girth"... Well, it's not going to be called "Girth" on the album, it'll get changed, but it's such a heavy song we call it "Girth" for now. It's named after this guy West [Arkeen], who writes with us sometimes. He's a real little fucker, right? but his dick, it's only about this long but it's like this wide, man! so he got the girth, right? so we call this song "girth"...'

Oh the intelligence.

[anarchy]

Is Coma on Live Era? I checked on itunes and amazon and its not listed as on the album at those places but at http://www.gnrinfo.tk, they have it listed as the 12th song on disc 1: http://home.no.net/dalgnr/info/songinfo/le8793.htm

There is a live recording of Coma which appears as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Live Era.

[Antonzen]

Is Coma on Live Era? I checked on itunes and amazon and its not listed as on the album at those places but at http://www.gnrinfo.tk, they have it listed as the 12th song on disc 1: http://home.no.net/dalgnr/info/songinfo/le8793.htm

There is a live recording of Coma which appears as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Live Era.

And it also appears on the vinyl version.

I think its from Columbia 92?

[monom]

I always believed it was from Tokyo 92...