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Coma
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Nov 7, 2026 updated
COMA album
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Song Meaning
Hulvey tells "Coma" as a short story about a man adrift. His eyes are closed, he is "driftin'" in the ocean, and the storm gets worse: darker clouds, harder waves, lightning cracking as he is thrown through the water. The speaker watches in disbelief and asks, "tell me how he still breathin'."
The turn comes in the third verse. "A sudden joy reigns inside his chest," strong enough to call up "a million waves" and lift him from his rest. He wakes to calm water and "the morning light," pink skies, and a shore he cannot explain reaching. The final verse leaves the rescue unexplained, since "nobody knows how he made it out alive." The song does not say who carried him, which lets the listener supply the answer.
The hook shrinks the story to a prayer for anyone in a long night: "We just gotta make it to the morning." Psalm 30:5 holds that weeping may stay for the night while joy comes with the morning, and Psalm 107:29 describes a storm stilled into a hush, which fit the arc of the story.
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Don't want to miss
His eyes closed in a coma, can it be lifted?
He nods out in the ocean, just driftin'
Just driftin', driftin', driftin'
The clouds are gettin' darker, the waves are crashin' harder
The lightning cracks as his body's tossed through the water
The atmosphere is screamin', the end is surely speakin'
I don't understand this, tell me how he still breathin'
In the midst a sudden joy reigns inside his chest
Enough to call a million waves and raise him from his rest
He opens up his eyes and sees an unfamiliar sight
Everything is still, behold, the morning light
Pink skies risin', he's back on the shore
He tries to recollect what happened, but he's still not sure
And to this day nobody knows how he made it out alive
Behold the morning light, the sun has arrived
We just gotta make it to the morning
Make it to the morning
Got to make it to the morning
I just gotta make it to the morning
Yeah-eah-eah-eah