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{{ | '''"Want You Gone"''' is the end credits theme of ''[[Portal 2]]''. {{spoiler text|It is played after the player leaves Aperture Science and receives the [[Weighted Companion Cube]]. The appearance of the lyric scene is the same as in "[[Still Alive (song)| Still Alive]]", as an after action report.}} | ||
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== Track == | == Track == | ||
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== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
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* {{Spoiler|"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?" - The events of Portal.}} | * {{Spoiler|"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?" - The events of Portal.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|"Oh how we laughed and laughed // Except I wasn't laughing" - In the first line, GLaDOS is being sarcastic. On the second line she breaks the sarcasm back to the serious climate.}} | |||
* {{Spoiler|"Under the circumstances I've been shockingly nice" - GLaDOS usually attempts to kill Chell directly and indirectly, but on the second half of Portal 2, she helps Chell defeat [[Wheatley]] and, surprisingly nice.}} | |||
* {{Spoiler|"Now I only want you gone" - [[GLaDOS]] deciding not to kill [[Chell]] and letting her go.}} | * {{Spoiler|"Now I only want you gone" - [[GLaDOS]] deciding not to kill [[Chell]] and letting her go.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|"(Maybe not quite as heavy)" - {An indirect insult to Chell, a comedic reference to how GLaDOS discouraged Chell by telling her she is "fat".}} | |||
* {{Spoiler|"Now little Caroline is in here too" - [[Caroline]] is the personality GLaDOS was based on.}} | * {{Spoiler|"Now little Caroline is in here too" - [[Caroline]] is the personality GLaDOS was based on.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"One day they woke me up // So I could live forever" - GLaDOS is a well sustained and maintained AI computer, so she is unsurprisingly immortal.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you" - Chell will never be uploaded to a computer, respectively.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|"You' | * {{Spoiler|"You've got your short sad life left" - GLaDOS is eternal, Chell the human is not.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"Goodbye my only friend" - GLaDOS deleting Caroline's personality from her memory.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|"That would be funny if it weren't so sad" - GLaDOS being sarcastic again.}} | * {{Spoiler|"That would be funny if it weren't so sad" - GLaDOS being sarcastic again.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"Well you have been replaced // I don't need anyone now // When I delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad" - Chell being replaced by [[Atlas]] and [[P-Body]] as GLaDOS's main test subject. Another interpretation might be that GLaDOS is referring to Caroline rather than Chell meaning deleting Caroline will free GLaDOS of emotions. This interpretation is less consistent with the concept of replacement in this lyric since Caroline is not being replaced at all, Chell is. It is likely this series of lyrics is a blended reference to both Chell and Caroline.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"Go make some new disaster" - Referring to Chell destroying the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.}} | ||
* {{Spoiler|" | * {{Spoiler|"You're someone else's problem" - GLaDOS being fed up by Chell by destroying her, putting Wheatley in command and other mistakes. She then tells Chell that she is no longer her problem.}} | ||
== Composition == | == Composition == | ||
"Want You Gone" was written by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Still Alive", and sung by Ellen McLain, the [[Voice actor]] for [[GLaDOS]], an opera singer and also the singer of "Still Alive" in [[Portal]]. | ''"Want You Gone''" was written by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Still Alive", and sung by Ellen McLain, the [[Voice actor]] for [[GLaDOS]], an opera singer and also the singer of "Still Alive" in [[Portal]]. | ||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* {{spoiler text|After the song concludes, the screen that the song was shown on is shown floating into space, and a clip of [[Wheatley]] wishing that he could apologize to Chell is shown.}} | * {{spoiler text|After the song concludes, the screen that the song was shown on is shown floating into space, and a clip of [[Wheatley]] wishing that he could apologize to Chell is shown.}} | ||
* The line "I'll stop feeling so bad," while sung, is replaced by the word "[REDACTED]" during the cinematic credits. Prior to Portal 2's release, "[REDACTED]" was also the description of the [[Aperture Labs Hard Hat]] in [[Team Fortress 2]]. | * The line "I'll stop feeling so bad," while sung, is replaced by the word "[REDACTED]" during the cinematic credits. Prior to Portal 2's release, "[REDACTED]" was also the description of the [[Aperture Labs Hard Hat]] in [[Team Fortress 2]]. | ||
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