Quote of the Day and explanation

"I no longer knew if Coma White was real or just a side effect" 

-Hidden quote in the lyrics booklet for Marilyn Manson's album "Mechanical Animals" (or so a website says, I don't own the album [yet] so I wouldn't know)

This one requires explanation, and I know it does, because I saw this one WAY back when, and until I understood the concept behind it, I just thought it was a bit of theatrics, a little mystery to intrigue you into listening to the album a little closer. That was before I knew that Mechanical Animals was a concept album, and actually part of a metaphorical/allegorical autobiographical series of concept albums. (Points if you can count the number of AL's in that sentence!)

Anyway, now to why this quote resonates with me so much.

In the continuity of Mechanical Animals, Coma White is a girl, seen while on drugs, that is the main character's (Omega, with a long E) love interest. But, if you really listen to it, and the singer himself has said this, she is a personification of an ideal of perfection, an unobtainable entity that you always pine for and want to make real and tangible, but is always just out of reach.

We all use some sort of drug, sex, drugs, TV, God, and that makes us happy. But this happiness is fleeting, temporary. We believe it liberates us, but it really makes us numb. Mechanical. It takes us to a point where we NEED these things. And we are all trying to get to be this intangible state of perfection, and we keep thinking we're getting close, but really we never will be, and, in actuality, are being taken farther and farther away from it, because our happiness is induced, and temporary, while the need for our "hit" makes us automatons. We are all Mechanical Animals, searching for our Coma White.

PRETTY deep shit, yo. Pass the bong.