PORCUPINE TREE — Coma Divine Live

This is one of those records which will blow you socks off and give those who have never really heard them a great introduction. This set list is full of their classics with some nice variations. The highlights for me are "Radioactive Toy" and "Waiting" both tracks words can not describe. Steve Wilson and team are at their best and the cd is very well recorded giving the listener a true feeling of being at the show. This is very intelligent space music which comes in somewhere between PINK FLOYD and OZRIC TENTACLES... A real treat!

Coma Divine (3LP + bonus 7 inch single)

SIDE 1

1. Bornlivedieintro (1:25)

   [instrumental]

2. Signify (5:29)

   [instrumental]

3. Waiting: Phase One (4:26)

   Waiting... to be born again

   Wanting... the saddest kind of pain Waiting for the day when I will crawl away

   Nothing is what I feel Waiting... for the drugs to make it real Waiting... for the day when I will crawl away

   Waiting... to be disciplined Aching... for your nails across my skin Waiting... for the day when I will crawl away

4. Waiting: Phase Two (5:23)

   [instrumental]

SIDE 2

1. The Sky Moves Sideways (12:40)

   We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted in to blank space And let the clocks relapse

   We laughed the rain down Slow burn on the lawn Ghosts across the lawn Swallowed up the storm

   Sometimes I feel like a fist Sometimes I am the colour of air Sometimes it's only afterwards I find that I'm not there

   In the dream dusk We walked beside the lake We watched the sky move sideways And heard the evening break

   Sometimes I feel like a fist Sometimes I am the colour of air Sometimes it's only afterwards I find that I'm not there

2. Dislocated Day (6:35)

   A dislocated day Peers in to the ether Counts the stars inside the sky And flies in to the never

   Looped around my eyelids A thousand shining flecks Pale against the canvas Which hangs around my neck

   Dislocated day I will find a way To make you say The name of your forgiver

   Stood beside an inlet A starfish leads a dance It dreams it is a human And falls into a trance

   A hole inside my body Is wired up to a charge Chemical imbalance Tells me who you are

   Insects hide the silence November brings deep rain Between the flow to freezing And yesterday's sustain

SIDE 3

1. The Sleep of No Dreaming (5:19)

   At the age of sixteen I grew out of hope I regarded the cosmos Through a circle of rope So I threw out my plans Ran on to the wheel And emptied my head Of all childish ideals The sleep of no feeling I married the first girl Who wasn't a man And smiled as the spiders Ran all over my hands Made a good living By dying it's true As the world in my TV Leaked onto my shoes

2. Moonloop (11:50)

   [instrumental]

SIDE 4

1. Up the Downstair (7:40)

   Sleep Until the colours dissolve Leave the dream to rain-soak forever In blessed moments Viewed from trains of half-truths

   Monuments burn into moments Up into other worlds Other ascensions Without deep sorrow to endure

   Black Sunday of sleep Open for small angel escapes Moved by buildings to tears They week in the rain Am I at home? Am I in heaven? Gentle Architecture

2. Moon Touches Your Shoulder (5:05)

   Springtime is over Don't head for home Creep up the ladder And steal over stone

   No time to forget this World's in your eyes Sway in the cloud blur And light up the sky

   Cast off the colour And tune in to black The moon touches your shoulder And brings the day back

3. Always Never (5:41)

   I feel no pain Cos I'm an island I will remain In the deafness of your silence

   I love you sometimes Always Never He said you're here Here with me now

   I feel no gain When you're around me I'll try again In the darkness you astound me

   It's growing cold I'm growing old Is this the only way to see the fire? It's raining...

SIDE 5

1. IS. . . NOT (6:09)

   [instrumental]

2. Radioactive Toy (13:30)

   Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break down walls of numbing pain

   Give me the freedom to destroy Give me radioactive toy

   Taste the water from a stream of running death Eat the apple and cough a dying breath

   Feel the sun burning through your black skin Pour me into a hole, inform my next of kin

   Run through graveyards on a dusty Winter day Spit the dirt out and try to say...

SIDE 6

1. Not Beautiful Anymore (9:39)

   [instrumental]

BONUS 7 INCH SINGLE

1. Disappear Demo 1 (Feb 1997)
2. Disappear Demo 2 (April 1997)