Hey you caught me in a coma
And I don't think I wanna
Ever come back to this... world again
Kinda like it in a coma
'Cause no one's ever gonna
Oh, make me come back to this... world again
Now I feel as if I'm floating away
I can't feel all the pressure
and I like it this way
But my body's callin'
My body's callin'
Won't ya come back to this... world again
Suspended deep in a sea of black
I've got the light at the end
I've got the bones on the mast
Well, I've gone sailin', I've gone sailin'
I could leave so easily
While friends are calling back to me
I said they're
They're leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
An’ someone to tell me
what the fuck is going on
Goddamn it!

Slippin' farther an’ farther away
It's a miricle how long we can stay
In a world our minds created
In a world that's full of shit

Please understand me
I'm climbin' through the wreckage
of all my twisted dreams
But this cheap investigation just can't
stifle all my screams
And I'm waitin' at the crossroads
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
Where are you?

No one's gonna bother me anymore
No one's gonna mess with my head no more
I can't understand what all the fightin's for
But it's so nice here down off the shore
I wish you could see this
'cause there's nothing to see
It's peaceful here and it's fine with me
Not like the world where I used to live
I never really wanted to live

Ya live your life like it's a coma
So won't you tell me why we'd wanna
With all the reasons you give it's
It's kinda hard to believe
But who am I to tell you that I've seen
Any reason why you should stay
Maybe we'd be better off without you anyway

You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
An’ there's no way out alive
An’ all this crass communication
That has left you in the cold
Isn't much for consolation
When you feel so weak and old
But if home is where the heart is
Then there's stories to be told
No you don't need a doctor
No one else can heal your soul

Got your mind in submission
Got your life on the line
But nobody pulled the trigger
They just stepped aside
They be down by the water
While you watch 'em waving goodbye
They be callin' in the morning
They be hangin' on the phone
They be waiting for an answer
But you know nobody's home
And when the bell's stopped ringing
It was nobody's fault but your own
There were always ample warnings
There were always subtle signs
And you would have seen it comin'
But we gave you too much time
And when you said that no one's listening
Why'd your best friend drop a dime
Sometimes we get so tired of waiting
For a way to spend our time
An’ "It's so easy" to be social
"It's so easy" to be cool
Yeah it's easy to be hungry
When you ain't got shit to lose
And I wish that I could help you
With what you hope to find
But I'm still out here waiting
Watching reruns of my life
When you reach the point of breaking
Know it's gonna take some time
To heal the broken memories
That another man would need
Just to survive

 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I (1991)

Voila une chanson que j’apprécie particulièrement, et pourtant, je ne peux pas dire que ça a toujours été le cas, surtout à cause de ça durée qui excède les 10 minutes. A chaque fois que je tombais dessus (J’utilise toujours iTunes et la lecture aléatoire), je zappais une grosse partie pour me retrouver à la 6^e minutes afin d’apprécier le premier solo du morceau (Car bien sur, il y’en a plusieurs).

Cette chanson à la particularité d’avoir plusieurs rythme : Du calme pesant et lourd, au rythme heavy, rapide et violent. Elle fait aussi partie de ces chansons de Guns N’ Roses (comme November Rain, Locomotive, Estranged…) complexes, à la composition travaillée et cryptée, et dans laquelle les paroles ont un poids et une importance (Enfin je parle pour moi, car perso, je ne m’intéresse jamais aux paroles, mais uniquement aux riffs de la guitare…). Axl montre ici tout son talent et joue à merveille avec sa voix pour passer du donneur de leçon au gars complètement paumé et perdu et revenir au vilain méchant de service.

J’avoue qu’a la découverte des paroles de la chanson, j’ai apprécié encore plus la chanson, je m’identifie dans plusieurs passages, et à chaque fois que je l’écoute, je ne peux rester indifférent. A quelques détails prés, je vous aurais présenté cette chanson comme MA chanson tellement…

Enfin, sachez que Coma est une chanson qu’on prend le temps d’écouter, qu’on prend le temps de vivre, qui nous extirpe de ce monde pendant quelques minutes, qui m’emmène dans un coma… et à chaque fois j’en sors « plus fort ».

Bonne écoute.