Coma Boy | Rebecca Clements

I remember listening to this song for the first time and stopping everything when I heard the chorus. I stopped because I couldn’t believe the lyrics. I couldn’t believe how they described something so perfectly: being with someone who in all aspects is alive but seems dead. 

They’re breathing.

Their pupils respond to light.

But that’s about it. 

You trust that blood’s pumping through their veins, but there’s no evidence of that it’s actually happening.

So you sit there by their side, waiting for some sign of life. Hoping that you’ll say the right words, or squeeze their hand hard enough, or brush their hair back at the right moment, that will make them open their eyes.

But it never happens. 

And after what seems like forever, you realize that you can’t be their life support.

So you pull the plug.

Not so they can die. But so that you can breathe on your own.