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  4. This song makes me think about my father. When he was near the end of his life. He was mostly out of his senses. The few times he came around there in the end. I saw the fear in his eyes because he knew he was going to die soon. I tried to convince him it was fine. That he lived a full life and should look forward to "the afterlife" or wtf ever. It's just some bullshit you say to try and console someone you love. You don't really believe it. But I find myself trying more and more to believe what I actually told him. This is hell

  6. Took me forever to find this song!! Liquid Metal introduced me to this song.I never forgot it,and how it moves me.Kinda like a Pink Floyd trip,but with good music!! I'm 51 yo in a few weeks and hope to see you guys in Atlanta in March! My first concert since the original Van Halen 1984 set…Please head butt me if we meet! 🙂

  8. This song can only be heard as intended when played on vinyl. There are certain parts in which you are supposed to shift from 33rpm to 45rpm and, and parts where you have to switch back to 33rpm. It still sounds good when played in its entirety on 33rpm, which is what you're hearing here, and on the CD and digital versions; but it's not supposed to be as sludgy as it sounds here. You're given audible cues of when it's time to switch speeds, and it's up to you to interpret them. I dont wanna spoil it by giving them away. This is a brilliant song, and I wish more bands would release long, listener interactive songs like this.

  12. The part which is starting at 10:00 sounds so beautiful but yet so depressing. I love this whole song, its a real masterpiece to me. The meaning of it gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it. Every segment tells the story bit by bit, I admire Vincents creativity so much!

  15. Going through the comments I see a lot of people leaving their stories / connections to this song. I remember when this record came out, I listened from front to back. The ten tracks preceding this song took me on a journey themselves, but an entirely different experience was to be had listening to this masterpiece. The only way I have been able to describe this song to my peers was to compare it to a movie. Every time I listen, I feel like I see a story unfold behind my eyelids, and its something I have never EVER experienced from anything else in my life. Observer is the purest embodiment of pain, suffering, and hatred in any auditory form. I will never cease to listen to it in full whenever it comes on.

  21. This song still gives me chills 3 years later. I can't listen to the whole thing mind you, it's just so depraved and evil lmao. The True Detective clip makes it even better

  24. WHO IN THE GODDAMN FUCK WOULD LISTEN TO THIS SLOW ASS BORING FUCKING SONG ALL THE WAY THROUGH!? I played a guitar hero chart for this shit and I almost fell the fuck to sleep. There is absolutely no fucking redeeming factor about this song.

  26. The ambient evil and darkness from this song is obscenely compelling. Acacia Strain has yet to disappoint, album after album. There is no god, spirituality in the sense of religion is for the profoundly ignorant.

  27. Absolutely beautiful. Instrumentation, lyrics, meaning, all of it. It truly sums up the record. The first ten tracks are the terrors a man has (as he has night terrors/sleep paralysis), about killing, disregard for religion, and losing those he loves. They go into thorough detail about what he dreams about (How he kills someone, burning down shrines and terrorizing people), but this final track truly links everything together, telling the story in whole from the mans perspective. The man falls asleep once more, having another horrible dream, this one about murdering his wife for wanting "things to go back to the way they used to be", presumably a time before the mans night terrors started. He hears her every word as she talks to him in the dream, hence the muffled, dreamy sound of her voice. However, this time he "wakes up", realizing that he has actually killed her, hinting that while he was killing her, he was under the immense pressure of his emotions, and imagined it was just a dream. From here he starts his car, and decides the only thing he can truly do is kill himself. He drives his vehicle, and throws it off the road, presumably off a cliff of sorts, crashes, and waits for death. The paramedics reach him first, hinted by the sound of the sirens, and is rushed to the hospital. This is where the albums title comes into play. We here his heart rate, nice and steady, and as someone else pointed out in the comments, he undergoes surgery. He lives, but is put into a deep coma. "She pulls you deeper from the world. As you gasp your final breathe. Say goodbye to the world. And face your fate that’s worse than death". That final line there is hinting at the fact that in this coma (similar to Metallica's "One"), the man cannot move, cannot see, cannot escape, and can only relive the murdering of his wife, over, and over, and over. "Give your life to the witch" hits hard. It's essentially the man pleading for death. He cannot go on living like he is, and "welcomed it…not at first, but…right there in the last instant. It's an unmistakable relief. See, cause [he was] afraid, and now [he] saw for the very first time how easy it was to just…let go". And he does. "I leave the world behind I cannot scream", but has one last wish. He wants to be buried in a nameless grave. He wants to leave the world unnoticed, and forever so. He doesn't deserve to be named on his tombstone. No fingerprints, no face, gone without a trace…

  36. I put this on tonight while driving home around midnight in the pouring rain. I started tearing up around halfway through.
    I realized when I think about The Acacia Strain, that kind of experience isn't exactly what I expect or associate them with. And for this reason I think Coma Witch is a fucking fantastic album.

  39. this album, and particularly this song kind of change my life, I was going through a depression when I bought this album, and this album only made it worse, but for the better, made me hate people and everyone around me even more.

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