Welcome to August! I first came across the word "coma" from the 1978 cinematic adaptation of Robin Cook's novel "Coma" whose poster originated from the cover of the book: a chilling display of a naked body held up by strings. Until then, I'd though that the word was merely mistaken spelling of a punctuation mark but of course the meaning was far more serious. I was way too young and too much of a fraidy-cat to watch something like that at the theatre, but I've heard over the years that it made for a great hospital thriller with Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas and Tom Selleck (yep, some years before he was immortalized as the first Magnum PI).
Cue ahead a couple of decades and what we've got is "Coma", the lead track on rock band SEAGULL SCREAMING KISS HER KISS HER's "17" album from September 1998. It's quite the hard art rock song with vocalist and songwriter Aiha Higurashi（日暮愛葉）creating the first third of the song as a nonchalant almost child-like spoken-word approach to the lyrics against the background of a brooding electric guitar before things go thumping melodically along.
Not sure how you feel about "Coma", but hearing Higurashi intoning and then singing the lyrics, I think it's either about someone who can't be bothered to get off the couch and relies on the significant other for various favours or the person really is in a coma with her still active mind in a locked body while a med tech may be taking some horrible advantage with her. It's not exactly Rammstein, but still...
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