#Coaltar of the Deepers

[shoukougun]

COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS in Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 122 (September 1999)

[beatsforbrothels]

Coaltar Of The Deepers - The Lightbed

[jumpingiznotacrime]

cotd / rare white ep cover?

[electrosquash]

Yukari Telepath my beloved

[cotdfan]

https://rooftop1976.com/interview/240523220000.php (After reading the Google Translated interview...) the recent COTD x BORIS interview mentions that they considered an overseas tour, but visas & stage prep, especially for US, is a big hassle. NARASAKI is working on a maxi single w 4 songs & they'd like to release it before end of the year (Sheep EP?).

[sklira]

ES | BP.

[milkoptimal]

[5-pp-man]

Dear Future ’18 - Coaltar Of The Deepers

from Mawaru Penguindrum (ED 1)

[shoukougun]

[beatsforbrothels]

Coaltar of the Deepers - Receive Assimilation

[owlteadrop]

Thoughts about Hallucination by Coaltar of the Deepers Analysing some of the lyrics cuz this is my fav COTD song as well as one of my overall fave songs :p thanks for reading ヽ(；▽；)ノ I got the lyrics here.

Overall I think it’s about an unstable couple eloping. “Bored in their heads, I don’t know... mhmmm” • “their” makes this a hard line to interpret since it’s kind of hard to tell who the people involved are • “Their” could be referring to this couple and how the world has become dull to them (maybe relating to the later line “Fascination, without what we are” ) with “I don’t know” being either a bit coy or the singer genuinely not knowing why

• This line could be interpreted more literally as in 'to bore' • Could be rigid social ideas that are in people’s heads or perhaps the plans to elope are firm in the couple’s heads or perhaps the singer is nonchalantly announcing how he caved in two people’s heads or it could be a mix of all these ideas

“Dark. If you try on holding the rare

Chance.”

• you’ll be filled with regrets (that’s how I interpreted dark here due to a later line) if you keep holding but not committing to your desires (in this case eloping)

“Some never run” • Some lovers don’t commit to eloping like the singer or some of their friends or family are loyal enough to stick by these lovers

“but me and her are

Down, into ourselves, I seem to ignore, the whole world”

• These two tune out the world and fall deeper into each others illusions • It also seems that the singer is prideful, only thinking of himself

“Faith, make me safe, I will be gone for long”

• The singer commits to eloping with his lover but is still not fully confident in it

“Never rushing to stay away from me I brush you, then kiss your neck and kneel”

• pretty obvious, a show of the lovers’ loyalty to each other “Separation, to keep away from me” - I think the singer has something in his nature he has to repress (perhaps violent tendencies, who knows) which scared the both of them and leads to his lover becoming distant

• I always hear "never rushing" as 'revelation' tbh

“A close death

To separate this, come face the door with me”

• The death may be of another person or the singer’s sense of self?

• I believe the door symbolises the boundary between the singer’s projected self and inner self

• The singer may be trying to change for the better by opening up the door and letting the two sides merge

“Hold on

This is how we do this burst, only pushing forward”

• I will note this line sounds like ‘how we do our best” to me as well

• “Hold on” here makes it seem his lover is starting to have regrets and the singer is comforting her

• “Burst” feels to me like they’re both uncontrollable and unpredictable in nature

• They also try not to dwell on their past actions, only carrying on mindlessly

“Time to let me fight with our remorse Let me fight for our love, execution: two, we are”

• pretty obvious again, the singer ends up doing something regrettable (perhaps murdering two people who want to stop them?)

• “Our remorse” indicates his lover is starting to have regrets as well but he fronts a nonchalant attitude to keep them together

• The way the “we are” is kept in this line but obviously applies to the next one (idk poetry terms sorry) is probably to emphasise how detached and lonely the couple are now

“Dark from lack of sleep, often tired, so cold”

• reminds me of Macbeth where the titular couple are unable to sleep due to their guilt and as a result grow insane which is how I got the connection of "dark" to regrets and guilt

• “Cold” indicates a lack of love

"Approvation, who said what will you do?"

• This could indicate a shared rebelliousness in this couple (maybe that's how it started everything)

“Comprehension, that takes the heads from the sea”

• I feel like “sea” here is metaphorical way of referring to a crowd and the singer is talking about how they’re carefully selecting their acquaintances

"Calculation, to show how select we are"

• The singer is perhaps trying to convince his lover (and maybe even himself) how special they are, maybe in an attempt to further isolate themselves

• another example of this could be in "Proof that makes you see that we’ve been harmed to be"

“Hyper tension, to keep the hidden in me” • It’s straining for the singer to hide things (could be secrets, shame, power etc)

• Could also mean his lover is struggling to keep him in check

"Separation, so you can go after me"

• This could show how confident the singer is that his lover is dependant on him

“Assimilation, who says that, “what will you do?””

• might be a bit of a stretch but it might relate to the idea of assimilating the shadow self which involves acknowledging both your positive and negative traits in order to accept and forgive yourself

“The pride should fall”

• Feels reminiscent of the proverb ‘pride comes before the fall'

• Could be more like the name for a social unit of lions, as in social structures should fall

One thing I'm not very sure about still is the repeated mention of "infected". Maybe something about this "hallucination"? Thanks for reading :D If you're interested, I also made an instrumental version of this song as well!

[funstealer]

Coaltar of the Deepers - Tim (Pleasure → Despair)