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..let's start my adventure in these pages with the review of the song where the title of my blog comes from: it is Reptilia by The Strokes. This song is one of the most amazing songs in Room On Fire, their second album released in October 2003, which is also named after the same line in Reptilia.
..let's start my adventure in these pages with the review of the song where the title of my blog comes from: it is Reptilia by The Strokes. This song is one of the most amazing songs in Room On Fire, their second album released in October 2003, which is also named after the same line in Reptilia.
"Reptilia"
He seemed impressed by the way you came in
"Tell us a story
I know you're not boring"
I was afraid that you would not insist
"You sound so sleepy
just take this, now leave me"
I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town
Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough
Now every time that I look at myself
"I thought I told you
this world is not for you"
The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
"you sound so angry
just calm down, you found me"
I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town
Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough
The title "Reptilia" refers to the Reptilian Complex (or R-Complex), that is a part of the brain according to the theory of the brain model by the neuro scientist Paul D. MacLean. In particular the R-Complex is something like the "irrational" part of our brain, that we share with reptiles, and that is responsible for rage and the first stage of "stress response" which causes spontaneous or intuitive behaviors. Indeed, Julian Casablancas' sharp voice tells us about a complicated relationship between a man and a woman who meet again after they took different "lanes" apparently because of the girl's decision ("you ran me off the road"). This fact hardly struck the male character and it took him a while to recover and "take over". After he finally retrieves the girl, he is proud of his own "recovery" that probably stunned the girl ("you're not longer laughing, I'm not drowning fast enough") and rage overwhelms him as he is not satisfied by the girl's attempts to heal the old fracture ("you're not trying hard enough"), as he doesn't like the world where the girl is living after she took that lane ("I thought I told you this world is not for you"). His rage culminates in those moments when he sees the girl "fixing her hair" to such an extent that he sees the room on fire. The girl notices his rage and tries to calm him down but he doesn't want to listen to her even if he realizes that he's "going too fast".
Here it ends my first lyrics review: I leave it to you to extend your own interpretations and..why not..if you want you can post here your own feelings. I just want to add two more things: first, I like to imagine the scene in a motel room with the angry man singing this song sitting in an old and spoilt sofa; second, if you listen to the song you could even sense the increasing rage mainly in the parts where the instruments slowly overlap!
Bye!
Here it ends my first lyrics review: I leave it to you to extend your own interpretations and..why not..if you want you can post here your own feelings. I just want to add two more things: first, I like to imagine the scene in a motel room with the angry man singing this song sitting in an old and spoilt sofa; second, if you listen to the song you could even sense the increasing rage mainly in the parts where the instruments slowly overlap!
Bye!
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