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}}'''"Reptile"''' is the twelfth track on 1994's ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' At 6:52, it is the longest track on the album. In an [http://thetentosaga.com/theninwebpit/axcess.html interview], [[Trent Reznor]] stated that he would have liked the song to have been released as a single. In 2021, a [[Hoaxes_and_jokes#nin.com_Memorial_Day_sale|fake cassette single]] of "Reptile" was put up for sale on the [[nin.com]] store as a joke.

In 2021, a [[Hoaxes_and_jokes#nin.com_Memorial_Day_sale|fake cassette single]] of "Reptile" was put up for sale on the [[nin.com]] store as a joke. The track "[[She's Gone Away]]" makes two hidden references to this song in its extra lyrics and : one in the ''[[Not The Actual Events]]'' physical component(where the "Reptile" lyrics are layered underneath the lyrics of "She's Gone Away"), and one in embedded (but unsung) lyrics in the Apple Music release of "She's Gone Away" (the lines "she spreads herself wide open to let the insects in" and "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been").

This is the original album version. Characteristic of the band's mid-90s industrial rock sound, it opens with an eerie and quiet machine-like sound collage [[samples|sampled]] from the film ''Leviathan'', which transitions into an imitative musical composition. The structure, repetitive in nature, contains three distinct but similar sections, all driven by machine-like percussion loops and undulating rhythm guitar and synthesized bass. A Two looped mechanical sound sounds that runs run through the song is are sampled from the film ''Aliens'' (: a metallic thud from the opening scene immediately after the chamber is cut open, and a pitched-up mechanical sound from the first power loader scene.) The choruses reflect a brighter mood with prominent melodic synthesizers and glimpses of guitar. The three sections are joined by two quiet instrumental breaks, a technique used later on "[[Even Deeper]]." The ascending synth melody from 5:13 to 5:20 seems to could potentially be a reference to or an interpolation of "Laura Palmer's Theme" from the television show ''Twin Peaks''. During this same section, there is a looped sample of a woman saying, "Kirk, help?" from the film ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre''. The "gong" sound that appears midway through the track and after the bridge is also used near the end of "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]", but the pitch is changed. The synth melody during the outro has the same voicing as that heard during the outro of "[[Last]]".

*[httphttps://vimeo.com/9055919 "Reptile" live in Boston, 6.23.06]