Saviors
Coma City
Song Meaning
Coma City is the album's "wake up and look around" track. Billie Joe paints a city that's basically given up: people pull down the shades, board up the windows, and drink lemonade while gunshots happen "in the distance." The cops have all quit. The sky is smoky. And somewhere in space, a billionaire is bankrupting the planet.
That last image, "bankrupt the planet for assholes in space," has been widely read as a shot at Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the space-race billionaires. Critic interpretation (New Noise Magazine, January 2024): "'Coma City,' on the other hand, features tongue-in-cheek lyrics that seem to critique Elon Musk and his space race, 'Bankrupt[ing] the planet.'"
The "smoky skies" and "mask on your face" lines also map cleanly onto wildfire smoke and Covid-era Bay Area life, both things Billie Joe has talked about often as part of the "what's wrong with America right now" mood that runs through the whole album.
That last image, "bankrupt the planet for assholes in space," has been widely read as a shot at Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the space-race billionaires. Critic interpretation (New Noise Magazine, January 2024): "'Coma City,' on the other hand, features tongue-in-cheek lyrics that seem to critique Elon Musk and his space race, 'Bankrupt[ing] the planet.'"
The "smoky skies" and "mask on your face" lines also map cleanly onto wildfire smoke and Covid-era Bay Area life, both things Billie Joe has talked about often as part of the "what's wrong with America right now" mood that runs through the whole album.
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Lyrics
Coma City
Open your eyes
Dead on arrival under smoky skies
Coma City (Coma City)
Children at play
Back from the chemist to mass on Sunday
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
Coma City (Coma City)
Pull down the shade
Board up the windows and drink lemonade
Coma City (coma city)
Don't call the cops
Word on the street is they all quit their jobs
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
(Coma city)
Coma City
Open your eyes
Dead on arrival under smoky skies
Coma City (Coma City)
Mask on your face
Bankrupt the planet for assholes in space
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
Open your eyes
Dead on arrival under smoky skies
Coma City (Coma City)
Children at play
Back from the chemist to mass on Sunday
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
Coma City (Coma City)
Pull down the shade
Board up the windows and drink lemonade
Coma City (coma city)
Don't call the cops
Word on the street is they all quit their jobs
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
(Coma city)
Coma City
Open your eyes
Dead on arrival under smoky skies
Coma City (Coma City)
Mask on your face
Bankrupt the planet for assholes in space
A gun shot, gun shot heads
Shooting in the distance
It's on your face and hands
With no resistance
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City (Coma City)
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
Coma City
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Live History
Live History
- Total Plays
- 5 times / #213 most played
- Most Recent
- September 30, 2025 San Bernardino, CA
- Earliest Known
- March 19, 2024 Anaheim, CA
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