The Representative of the List, “The City on Top”: text and meaning

The List Representative, The City Above: meaning of the lyrics of the new single

Available on all major streaming and download platforms from Friday 27 September, The City Above (Woodworm / Number One / Sony Music Italy – here is the pre-save) is the new single from The List Representativewhich continues the path towards the new recording project, inaugurated with the release of Paradiso last spring.

The Representative of the List, “The City on Top”: meaning of the song

The City Above It is a song that is part of the long sound journey, which began 13 years ago, of The List Representative: a seamless journey, with a recognizable sound but always in search of new evolutions and poetic and thematic insights.

And here, in the verse of the song, Veronica Lucchesi And Dario Mangiaracina they continue to explore human emotion, recounting an intimacy that then explodes in the chorus, with the pain and nostalgia that reverberate in the social and cultural unease of the city.

“The City Above It's a video game in which the protagonist is trapped. The cityas well as certain social patterns, as well as certain of our thoughts, It could be a cagecan force you into the same dynamics, reiterate the same patterns, put you in front of the same monsters on a daily basis.

It is when we already feel defeated, even though we are fighting, that we find ourselves silent, with our desires torn to pieces, not listened to, misunderstood. And the city reflects nothing but this defeat. This song is a starting point, it is a pretext to also tell other situations in which we felt engulfed, devoured. A moment before happy, a moment after imprisoned with freedom denied, our choice piloted, our peace bombed”, the duo says.

Then, he adds: “The song talks about when you feel a turmoil inside, when you find yourself inside a vortex and the confusion is reflected in the perception of what surrounds us: even the city, with its stimuli and its beauty, can collapse on you, it can be a weight that adds to what you feel inside.

Making music saves us anyway. Seeking beauty, finding a way to resolve those inner turmoils, flying by exploiting the dangerous vortices that pass through us, resisting the impulse to throw ourselves down, loving, giving ourselves the chance to build. In our music we always look for the poison and its antidote”.

The Representative of the List, “The City on Top”: lyrics of the song

The text of the The City Above will be available starting from Friday 27th September.

LRDL 2024 TOUR: the dates

LRDL 2024 TOUR will bring back Veronica Lucchesi And Dario Mangiaracina on the stages of the most important Italian clubs, where we will also find the musicians who have accompanied them live over the years and who have been involved in the recording of the new album material.

Below we report all the dates announced so far for the LRDL 2024 TOUR: