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"'Want You Gone" is the ~~song that goes along with the ending~~ credits of [[Portal 2]] It is played after the player leaves Aperture Science and receives the [[Weighted Companion Cube.]] It is ~~sung by~~ [[~~GLaDOS~~]], as ~~with "Still Alive" from Portal~~.

'''"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.}}

=== Video ===

== Track ==

== Lyrics ==

{{Spoiler|

<code>Well here we are again

It's always such a pleasure

Remember when you tried

to kill me twice?

Oh how we laughed and laughed

Except I wasn't laughing

Under the circumstances

I've been shockingly nice

You want your freedom?

Take it

That's what I'm counting on

I used to want you dead

but

Now I only want you gone

She was a lot like you

(Maybe not quite as heavy)

Now little Caroline is in here too

One day they woke me up

So I could live forever

It's such a shame the same

will never happen to you

You've got your

short sad life left

That's what I'm counting on

I'll let you get right to it

Now I only want you gone

Goodbye my only friend

Oh, did you think I meant you?

That would be funny

if it weren't so sad

Well you have been replaced

I don't need anyone now

When I delete you maybe

I'll stop feeling so bad

Well here we are again,

Go make some new disaster

~~it's always such a pleasure.~~

That's what I'm counting on

Remember when you tried

You're someone else's problem

to kill me twice?

Now I only want you gone (×3)</code>}}

Oh how we laughed and laughed,

~~except~~ I wasn't laughing.

== Connection to game ==

Under the circumstances

=== GLaDOS ===

I've been shockingly nice.

* {{Spoiler|"Well, here we are again" - [[Portal 2]] being the sequel to [[Portal]].}}

~~You want your freedom? Take it.~~

~~That's what i'm counting~~ on.

* {{Spoiler|"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?" - The events of Portal.}}

~~I used to want you dead, but~~

Now I only want you gone.

* {{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.}}

~~She was a lot like you.~~

(Maybe not quite as heavy.)

* {{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.}}

Now little Caroline is in here too.

One day they woke me up

* {{Spoiler|"Now I only want you gone" - [[GLaDOS]] deciding not to kill [[Chell]] and letting her go.}}

so I could live forever

It's such a shame the same will never

* {{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".}}

happen to you.

You've got your short sad life left.

* {{Spoiler|"Now little Caroline is in here too" - [[Caroline]] is the personality GLaDOS was based on.}}

~~That's what i'm counting on.~~

~~I'll let you get right to it~~

* {{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.}}

~~Now I only want you gone.~~

Goodbye my only friend.

* {{Spoiler|"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you" - Chell will never be uploaded to a computer, respectively.}}

~~Oh, did you think I meant you?~~

That would be funny,

* {{Spoiler|"You've got your short sad life left" - GLaDOS is eternal, Chell the human is not.}}

if it weren't so sad.

Well you have been replaced.

* {{Spoiler|"Goodbye my only friend" - GLaDOS deleting Caroline's personality from her memory.}}

I don't need anyone now,

~~when~~ I delete you

* {{Spoiler|"That would be funny if it weren't so sad" - GLaDOS being sarcastic again.}}

maybe I'll stop feeling so bad

~~Go make some new disaster~~

* {{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.}}

~~that~~'s ~~what I'm counting on~~.

~~You're someone else's problem~~,

* {{Spoiler|"Go make some new disaster" - Referring to Chell destroying the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.}}

~~now I only want you gone~~.

~~Now I only want you gone.~~

~~Now I only want you gone~~.

~~==Composition ==~~

* {{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.}}

"~~Want~~ You ~~Gone~~" ~~was written~~ by ~~Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Still Alive," and sung~~ by ~~Ellen McLain [[GLaDOS]]~~, ~~an opera singer~~ and ~~also the singer of "Still Alive~~."

== 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]].

== 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.}}

* 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]].

~~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.~~

[[Category:Music]]

[[Category:Portal 2]]

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-{{cleanup}}
+{{SpoilerHeavy}}
-"'Want You Gone" is the song that goes along with the ending credits of [[Portal 2]] It is played after the player leaves Aperture Science and receives the [[Weighted Companion Cube.]] It is sung by [[GLaDOS]], as with "Still Alive" from Portal.
+'''"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.}}
+=== Video ===
+{{youtube|ZNYjKDrnv4E|audio=yes}}
+== Track ==
+{{Track|Want You Gone}}
 == Lyrics ==
+{{Spoiler|
+<code>Well here we are again<br />
+It's always such a pleasure<br />
+Remember when you tried<br />
+to kill me twice?
+Oh how we laughed and laughed<br />
+Except I wasn't laughing<br />
+Under the circumstances<br />
+I've been shockingly nice
+You want your freedom?<br />
+Take it<br />
+That's what I'm counting on<br />
+I used to want you dead<br />
+but<br />
+Now I only want you gone
+She was a lot like you<br />
+(Maybe not quite as heavy)<br />
+Now little Caroline is in here too
+One day they woke me up<br />
+So I could live forever<br />
+It's such a shame the same<br />
+will never happen to you
+You've got your<br>
+short sad life left<br>
+That's what I'm counting on<br>
+I'll let you get right to it<br>
+Now I only want you gone
+Goodbye my only friend<br>
+Oh, did you think I meant you?<br />
+That would be funny<br />
+if it weren't so sad
+Well you have been replaced<br />
+I don't need anyone now<br />
+When I delete you maybe<br />
+I'll stop feeling so bad
-Well here we are again,
+Go make some new disaster<br />
-it's always such a pleasure.
+That's what I'm counting on<br />
-Remember when you tried
+You're someone else's problem<br />
-to kill me twice?
+Now I only want you gone (×3)</code>}}
-Oh how we laughed and laughed,
-except I wasn't laughing.
+== Connection to game ==
-Under the circumstances
+=== GLaDOS ===
-I've been shockingly nice.
+* {{Spoiler|"Well, here we are again" - [[Portal 2]] being the sequel to [[Portal]].}}
-You want your freedom? Take it.
-That's what i'm counting on.
+* {{Spoiler|"Remember when you tried to kill me twice?" - The events of Portal.}}
-I used to want you dead, but
-Now I only want you gone.
+* {{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.}}
-She was a lot like you.
-(Maybe not quite as heavy.)
+* {{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.}}
-Now little Caroline is in here too.
-One day they woke me up
+* {{Spoiler|"Now I only want you gone" - [[GLaDOS]] deciding not to kill [[Chell]] and letting her go.}}
-so I could live forever
-It's such a shame the same will never
+* {{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".}}
-happen to you.
-You've got your short sad life left.
+* {{Spoiler|"Now little Caroline is in here too" - [[Caroline]] is the personality GLaDOS was based on.}}
-That's what i'm counting on.
-I'll let you get right to it
+* {{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.}}
-Now I only want you gone.
-Goodbye my only friend.
+* {{Spoiler|"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you" - Chell will never be uploaded to a computer, respectively.}}
-Oh, did you think I meant you?
-That would be funny,
+* {{Spoiler|"You've got your short sad life left" - GLaDOS is eternal, Chell the human is not.}}
-if it weren't so sad.
-Well you have been replaced.
+* {{Spoiler|"Goodbye my only friend" - GLaDOS deleting Caroline's personality from her memory.}}
-I don't need anyone now,
-when I delete you
+* {{Spoiler|"That would be funny if it weren't so sad" - GLaDOS being sarcastic again.}}
-maybe I'll stop feeling so bad
-Go make some new disaster
+* {{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.}}
-that's what I'm counting on.
-You're someone else's problem,
+* {{Spoiler|"Go make some new disaster" - Referring to Chell destroying the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.}}
-now I only want you gone.
-Now I only want you gone.
-Now I only want you gone.
-==Composition  ==
+* {{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.}}
-"Want You Gone" was written by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Still Alive," and sung by Ellen McLain [[GLaDOS]], an opera singer and also the singer of "Still Alive."
+== 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]].
 == 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.}}
+* 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]].
+{{MusicNav}}
-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.
+[[Category:Music]]
+[[Category:Portal 2]]