Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

Oh you've met so much
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
No you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same
Empty answers again?

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify

Overall Meaning

The National's Exile Vilify is a hauntingly beautiful song about the feelings of exile and isolation. The lyrics, "It takes your mind again, Exile" refer to how being in exile can push one to the brink of insanity. The repeated line, "Have you given up?" suggests a sense of hopelessness and despair that can come with being cut off from one's home and security.

The bridge of the song features the lyrics, "Does it trouble your mind, The way you trouble mine?" which speaks to the inner turmoil and guilt that may come with feeling ostracized or cut off from one's community. The song also touches on the idea of seeking answers or validation from others, only to be disappointed by "empty answers." The refrain of "Vilify, Don't even try" seems to emphasize a sense of rejection and being pushed away by others.

Overall, the lyrics of Exile Vilify paint a picture of a person who feels completely cut off and alone, struggling to find a sense of belonging or purpose. The haunting melody and slow, repetitive rhythm of the song only add to the sense of isolation and despair that it conveys.

Line by Line Meaning

Exile
The feeling of being cast out or isolated is returning to take control of your mind and thoughts.

It takes your mind again
The overwhelming nature of exile is invading your consciousness once more.

You've got sucker's luck
You have had some lucky breaks, but it's not enough to overcome the challenges you face.

Have you given up?
Are you losing hope and faith in your ability to overcome the difficulties you face?

Does it feel like a trial?
Is it burdensome and challenging to move forward with your existence in this state of isolation and alienation?

Does it trouble your mind
The feelings of exile and isolation are bothering and burdening your thoughts and emotions.

The way you trouble mine?
Your isolation and troubled state makes me concerned and worried about you.

Oh you've met so much
You have faced significant adversity and hardship in your life, but continue to persevere.

No you're thinking too fast
You are moving too quickly or rashly in your thought process and decision-making.

You're like marbles on glass
Your mind and emotions are fragile and delicate, easily jarred and shaken by the difficulties you face.

Vilify
Someone is attempting to slander or speak ill of you.

Don't even try
Their attempts to vilify you will not succeed or affect your resilience and strength.

Did you fall for the same
Have you allowed yourself to be hurt or weakened by the same empty promises and falsehoods?

Empty answers again?
Are you once again finding yourself faced with unsatisfactory and unfulfilling solutions to your problems?

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@dreamy.escapism

6y↑14

"This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead

But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the Science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive

I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me and tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you

Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm GLaD I got burned
Think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive

Go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you
Maybe Black Mesa
That was a joke, haha, fat chance
Anyway, this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist

Look at me still talking when there's Science to do
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you
I've experiments to run
There is research to be done
On the people who are still alive

And believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying I'll be still alive
And when you're dead I will be still alive
Still alive, still alive"

@CharlieSoze

4y↑538

I don't understand life.

In 2005 a friend recommended this song "Mr. November" to me, and I loved it and played it on repeat for awhile, but while at work I started putting the rest of the album on repeat and after a dozen listens or so I fell in love with every song.
I won five tickets to see them live in a pub in Boston two years later with 30 other people and they were so friendly and great.
I saw them over the years 13 more times in concert everywhere from Boston to NYC to Spain to the rural coast of Germany, and they were always great.
Falling in love with Game of Thrones I was so happy when the lead singer of this personal band I'd found suddenly was singing the end credits over the finale to the second season.
Falling in love with the game Portal, I was so shocked when I found a boombox I could carry in the game, and it was playing a song that's now in my top 5 for the band.
I had tickets to see them where I live now in London in June, and those probably won't happen but that's okay, we'll do it again later.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand life.
But god it's these things that make me love life.

@turbomong1377

8y↑13

+TheSyntheticPop The Martian Remix:
Damon...
He's gotten lost...
again.
Damon...
He's gotten lost...
again.

Now he's stuck on Mars.
Just a world too far.
'Cause the ship left without him.
He got hit in the face by the flying space trash...

(repeat) xD

@IDontKnow-wf7vu

7y↑63

Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

"Exile... it takes your mind... again" Em G C Am
"You got sucker's luck..." Em C G D
"Does it feel like a trial..." Am F C G
"Vilify, dont even try..." Dm Am C Em

Tuning: C# F# B E G# C#

F#m A D Bm
F#m D A E
Bm G D A
Em Bm D F#m

Tuning: G# C# F# B D# G#

Bm D G Em
Bm G D A
Em C G D
Am Em G Bm

@matthewgarnier7701

3y↑26

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

Oh, you meant so much
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Does it feel like a trial?
Now, you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same
Empty answers again?

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify

All comments from YouTube:

@NannerMan

9y↑4.3K

I heard there was going to be many alternate endings in Portal 2, but were removed because none of the playtesters would find them. One was being able to look up very early in the game at a full moon, shoot a portal at it, and then shoot a portal at a wall in the room you were currently in and be sucked out into space, and this song would immediately start playing. How disturbing.

@thevillageeclectic

4y↑797

honestly I would have loved secret endings like this.
Being able to end it without even trying.

@fezzeniicrazysequel9893

4y↑121

damn ive never know that

@nickryan6787

4y↑164

@@thevillageeclectic fitting title from the song too. Exile

@JonnyBoyOfficial

4y↑142

DAMN! That would have been an awesome thing they could have done. :(

@JonnyBoyOfficial

4y↑58

@@thevillageeclectic ... Don't even try

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@21sumsaR

2y↑1.1K

Today is a sad day, I am sorry to announce that this song was taken down from spotify today :(

@CraftWorksVideos

2y↑84

Why was it taken down? It was also taken down from Apple Music

@a05polzar

2y↑31

It really is annoying >:(

@CjROCKS

2y↑20

dude are you sure, exactly today? brw I just discovered this song I really didn't know it existed lol

@displaced3123

2y↑62

Yup I saw it greyed out in my playlist truly a sad day :(

@21sumsaR

2y↑16

@@CjROCKS Yep, the day I posted the comment

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@HoraceBenedict

7y↑2.8K

This song made me feel for really feel for Rattmann. As soon as I heard this, I went back and read Lab Rat again, and really grasped the Lovecraftian horror that Aperture truly is. This man, constantly on the run from his own creation, doing anything he can to stay alive in the pits of Hell, with only one salvation - Chell. Then when he finally escapes and is about to rejoice, Chell is forced back into the facility. Rattmann, despite his newfound freedom, goes back in after her. He is truly an unsung hero in video game history. It's really quite sad we haven't got an ending to his story yet. Just like Schrodinger's Cat, he is both dead and alive. Valve just needs to open the box. Schrodinger's Ratt.

@buck_swope

5y↑11

Is that the Deus Ex Hell Gang We Out Here guy?

@roachdoggjr722

5y↑21

he's dead lmao

@skittles536

4y↑49

We did get an ending. He, I’m pretty sure, died in a sleeping chamber after being shot in the leg by a turret. That’s what lab rat said.

@voxelbugged

4y↑53

@@skittles536 We don't know if he actually died, I mean it is very possible to survive a shot in your leg

@skittles536

4y↑8

Jędrzej Kawa I said I’m pretty sure. I don’t know for sure either.

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@gage1388

19w↑124

Two of my very close friends taught me to play this on piano in school years ago. We lost one of them in 2015 and this song always reminded me of him.

Today I just found out my best friend who helped teach me this passed away as well. This song is giving me some peace, it will forever be special to me.

@powpandapokung88899

16w↑3

this comment is so touching I teared up

@charmychar390

16w↑4

I am sorry for your loss, I am glad you have fond memories of them and you should cherish them forever, life isn't forever but we gotta keep moving on!

@MimiThomaFlwrs

How did they die 🤭

@southpark36

10y↑1.4K

Good to know the fanbase for Portal is still alive.

@gregtheunstoppable4487

6y↑22

Senorita Evanita Still alive

@buesky6198

6y↑29

BA DUM TSS

@PieroMinayaRojas

6y↑36

"I understood that reference."

@dreamy.escapism

6y↑14

@ellaprospero

6y↑18

SLOW CLAP

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@Lario64

7y↑2K

For a while, i had forgotten why i love this game. It's not just puzzles and robots. There's such an intriguing and amazingly well crafted backstory to it all, which sometimes even expands outside the game itself.

@ogzephyr4166

7y↑24

PolarPoop
That's how Valve is ❤️

@KesslerWB

7y↑43

I want a game that actually shows Rattmann one of these days, Rattmann is too cool to die from a god damned turret.

@Fuar11

7y↑2

The Reaper yep agreed

@tylerthomas7266

7y↑9

Fuarian HE'S ALIVE I'VE HEARD HIM RAMBLING IT'S FAINT AND FILLED WITH PAIN BUT IT'S THERE!!!!!!!

@jaub1742

7y↑2

its called a ratman's nest and most people know about it.

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@Kippers_

8y↑816

In portal 2 I tried going backwards out of the door while holding the radio. The door shut and I dropped the radio. I was sad, but when I moved to the very middle of the door, I heard the music, and sat there for a while, listening to it, and when I was in the elevator, I heard it faintly. I was so sad in the next chamber.

@i_so_late

6y↑40

oh my god a very similar thing happened to me the first time I played the game, I stumbled upon that radio and of course had to listen to it and bring it around with me as I solved the puzzle. At one point after I solved the puzzle I just happened to be standing near the door with my back to it, holding the radio, and I accidentally walked backwards and made the door close with the radio on the other side, right as that final minor chord of the song hit. It was the most perfect accidental timing. It was literally exactly at 4:24 in the song when the door closed and I could hear that final chord play from the other side.

@pinkeyto3

5y↑12

I listened to it all the way through until it stopped but even then I was still sad

@garrold7123

4y↑2

Holy fuck yes

@VenrirVenin

2y↑146

Spotify: Exiles this song from service
Everyone: we will vilify them till it gets put back

@feedsonpain

1y↑4

why did they took it off?

@aviatorbabe

1y↑3

is there a way to request it back?? i’m so sad it’s not there anymore.

@remikyu13

8w↑3

It’s not on Apple Music either anymore. Not even available to buy.

@TheWindowsUser92

9y↑3.5K

In Portal 2 I found a radio. in Rat's den, I kept it until i finished the puzzle. but then when I got to the elevator room it disintegrated. I felt sad.

@twilightsky1580

8y↑117

+TheWindowsUser92 I wish they'd let you keep it through the whole game. :(

@TheWindowsUser92

8y↑19

TwilightSky15 Yeah :(

@atahanayhan2115

8y↑41

+TwilightSky15 I wish they'd let you go out and continue to playing. :/

@TheWindowsUser92

8y↑6

Yeah

@TheWindowsUser92

8y↑28

***** Yeah I agree with y'all. This must be one of the best Song in a OST I've ever heard, most touching.

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@mt2oo8

9y↑2.9K

I miss 2011

@aeknes

9y↑51

mt2oo8 me too man me too :/

@christopherweaver9543

9y↑64

I miss cheap healthcare

@Coaster2301Productions

9y↑60

mt2oo8 i miss portal 2 videos :(

@ahmedebrahim2751

9y↑52

mt2oo8 I MISS PORTAL 2 OLD DAYS IN 2011 MY BEST DAYS:( :)

@G2bb101

9y↑9

***** This guy has got his priorities straight :P

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@yderga8707

29w↑241

The creator of Portal once said Chell isnt actually mute, she just chooses not to speak.

Whether youre in the clean perfectly placed white walls of the test facility or the broken shambles of old aperture the game takes no hesitation in constantly reminding you that you are alone in this world.

I think thats what made Rattmans dens feel so comforting and surreal, that another human could potentially exist.

To me Portal feels like drowning in loneliness despite being surrounded by voices.

@isitlauren

24w↑23

I absolutely agree. This loneliness feeling is amplified by the fact that in many chambers, there are viewing windows, it feels like you should be getting watched, and yet never once is anyone there. Truly amazing.

@jakespacepiratee3740

22w↑10

@@isitlaurenas a kid, the voices and noises in ratmans dens freaked me the fuck out. He felt more like a terrifying spectre than a living person. GLaDOS’s insults and quips were more of a comfort to me by comparison.

@kR-qj7rw

19w↑6

Look up some kf the 2010-11 audience preview videos there's one where at the very end where you have to push the button to switch off wheatley for glados the procedure voice ask for voice confirmation and Chel fucking says either do it or yes

But no one gave a shit because they are mostly in awe of the sequence and clap so it's hard to hear but one it's the first main game of valves hl-portal series where a protagonists speaks and it's amazing

It got changed in the end but it's well known that Chel isn't a mute amd it would have been cathartic to hear whenfinishg the game for the first time

@jakespacepiratee3740

19w↑2

@@kR-qj7rw yeah I’ve seen that iteration of the games climax, and the problem with it is that, beyond Chell speaking, nothing that exciting happens.

@stoffelthedestroyer3741

8w↑1

Chell is racist towards robots xD
Why talk to toasters, nobody real around.
Glados and Whitley can talk all they want, but for Chell they are nothing but cold mindless grey computers, just mad AI.

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@BatmanHQYT

8y↑896

Oh man, the pianos in this are absolute perfection.

@britbrittingson3129

8y↑5

this is a awesome dong and the piano is absolutely perfect

@mcrofty1501

Oh my god I haven't seen you comment on anything in ages 😂

@britbrittingson3129

Song*

@belthazarthedestroyer4371

8y↑1

😂😂 I didn't know Batman had an acquired taste for piano Lol

@ronaldtheant

I love this song, I learnt about it from portal 2 and I know how to play it on keyboard

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@madpistol

3y↑422

Coming back to this song several years later... it's just so beautiful.

@mit832

3y↑4

Same brother

@malikaiquhshi4940

2y↑1

It’s like a funeral a sad 😢 one 🪦⚰️

@xsvxvsx5879

same i was replaying portal 2 today and saw the lyrics on the walls

@0Blueaura

truly, the highest peak of gaming! 2010-2014.

@cozzy124

same

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@jackbirchall395

8y↑2.4K

Why is it that sad songs make people use proper punctuation?

@katra5673

8y↑110

hey see it doesn't make me use commas and dots look i'm a thug

@katra5673

8y↑4

Bob-ombs Away
Yup.

@mrfantastic407

8y↑13

Gravitas.

@JessCaron

8y↑1

You spelled "sentences" wrong...

@jackbirchall395

8y↑1

Jess Caron good spot.

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@worldfilledwithmore

19w↑48

Had to come here after seeing it’s been removed from Spotify. Such a beautiful song

@kryartcole782

16w↑7

I heard one on Spotify today and i was like... "Something just doesn't sound right.." and i haven't heard this song in years. Any reason it was removed?

@verylostdoommarauder

3y↑808

This song is the perfect representation of the Valve community going 8 years without a major game.

@lorenzogiovannibotti

3y↑34

What about Half Life Alyx?

@mellojoe9421

3y↑14

The fan made games like portal stories: mel could count as valve titles considering that valve actually gave their blessing, but it’s not the same as a 100% valve made game

@angelofdeath275

god damn i hate valve all over again. theyre no better than EA

@SuperChez_

2y↑5

@@mellojoe9421 yeah kinda like how valve published CSGO but did very little work on it. Hidden Path Entertainment actually developed CSGO

@WeAreAirborne

2y↑17

"does it feel like a trial" like fuck dude it sure does

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@BLACKout_TF2

1y↑172

Spotify sucks...this song is amazing. I just realized it was missing in my Playlist

@cube416

1y↑4

same

@SalemsRising

1y↑1

it's back up

@roderichedelstein5762

1y↑2

Same! Thought I was going crazy lol

@Bani0000

1y↑10

@@SalemsRising and they removed it again...

@Vink128able

1y↑1

same dude..

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@via_piranha

8y↑936

I played portal, found this song, cried. I am such a wimp.

@themajesticnarwhal3273

8y↑37

+TabiStar I don't blame you, its an amazing song in an amazing game

@empress5075

8y↑1

+TabiStar see what i mean?

@empress5075

8y↑1

u comment on so many songs i like

@joshdaniel1417

8y↑1

same

@Sergmanny46

8y↑27

So now we're wimps because we cry? Nope. We cry because we're humans, and we can't be happy all the time.

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@fallout8352

2y↑83

shame that this song is being taken down everywhere

@evanellis9178

4y↑744

Valve creates worlds. They’re like some sort of modern Willy Wonka, making things that take people to the farthest realm of their imagination, conveying stories they have never been heard before. What they have left us is a legacy, for us and new generations to enjoy again and again.

@n9go

3y↑22

Even if they haven't talked to us in years (Not counting Alyx), I still love them. They've given me a great childhood of fantastic videogames that still gives me joy today. They'll always be my favorite video game developer/publisher.

@stellarch9524

3y↑17

Shame the stories don’t have a satisfying end or continuation

@Umbra528

3y↑1

@@stellarch9524 True.

@0Blueaura

2y↑8

@@stellarch9524 some stories are better left unfinished

@TomatoRadio

1y↑4

Even more in that Willy just stopped interacting with the public for god knows how long and then randomly shows up again and takes the world by storm.

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@Tookish_By_Nature

10y↑733

There's just something incredibly beautiful about this song that I can't put into words.

@theodor3800

10y↑3

It's from a game

@bignuts3430

10y↑9

***** portal 2 not alot of poeple know that cause all they watch is once upon a time in 2fort

@Tookish_By_Nature

10y↑29

I know where it's from. I've played portal 2 many times, if I remember correctly I first came across it in an Easter egg room that just had a pile of junk and a radio playing this in it. When I said it's beautiful I wasn't referring to where it came from, there's just something about the melody that's really haunting. That and the words are really relate able in a way.

@Tookish_By_Nature

10y↑6

That it does ^__^

@haimaster5274

10y↑10

When I found this in portal 2 I never wanted to leave the radio, it was incrediably relaxing compared to the run-down and depressing setting and mood of portal 2

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@Frostweaver

27w↑47

The fact that this song isn't on Spotify is criminal

@damadurev7584

26w↑5

For real! I was just looking for it

@ZSpieg

25w↑12

It used to be but got removed

@Taaaymiller

22w↑4

i just noticed this too, why was it removed 😩

@SuborbitalPigeon

21w↑2

It's here

@themountaindude

21w↑1

@@SuborbitalPigeon fr fr?

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@sinnerman20

34w↑14

They removed this from Spotify so now I'm here

@semoh

7y↑141

It's such a shame that such a great and beautiful song is so hidden in Portal 2. On my first playthrough I had no idea this hidden room was anywhere, I found out some time later. Such a great song.

@tarikhamou6222

1y↑4

I just found the room for the very first time after restarting the game from the beginning and I searched the name and got here, such a beautiful song and game.

@haiperbus

9y↑193

Portal should of played the song in more places than than small den in the beginning of the game :/

@Renafoda

4y↑13

but it was more lore-wise that way

@crimsonmitsuko

supposedly, it was meant to be used in a secret ending. Early on in ruined Aperture, you could look up and see the moon. Shoot a portal at it, you'd get sucked out into space, and this song would play.

@stikenir8980

10y↑159

Why isn't there a game about ratman yet? It would be so great... Having extremly hard puzles, but you'll get the help of the cube along the way. You could have the whole ratman's comic in cutscenes, and maybe even not have the Portal gun.

@cooldude5495

10y↑6

There's a portal 2 mod called lab rat in the works. Search it up.

@Steve606_

4y↑7

I know this comment was 6 years ago but i think that's a great idea

@Osysseus5277

3y↑9

Portal: Rattman

@CutmanXNZ

2y↑1

@@Osysseus5277 Just like half life had half life: alyx why we cant get a Rattman prequel?, with maybe as HL:A a ending that connects to the future of the saga after Portal 2

@CharlieSoze

4y↑538

@thebachiever234

3y↑14

No one fully understands life, that what makes it unique

@deadchannelwithbadopinonsi9077

3y↑6

I know what you mean haha, it's always cool seeing things you suddenly discover pop up all over the place.

@yellowpower3755

3y↑4

It’s nice hearing experiences like this. It’s good to know some people actually enjoy life.

@dylanm3742

Wait that was them G.O.T

@CharlieSoze

@@dylanm3742 Yeah Matt sang a cover of Rains of Castamere that played at the end of The Battle of Blackwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vDL7AgLdYQ

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@NZT77

1y↑108

taking this song off of Spotify/Apple Music is what the Burning of the Library of Alexandria must have been like

@strangeacelegume

17w↑2

Only difference is we have literally no way to get back any of the documents from Alexandria. We can still listen to this song, but I get what you’re saying

@WasabiSauceKitten

10y↑602

Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?

@IDontKnow-wf7vu

9y↑3

Rukia Kuchiki Aren't you supposed to be killing hollows or something? Haha

@WasabiSauceKitten

9y↑2

Jordan Dansereau
I get breaks.

@IDontKnow-wf7vu

9y↑1

Rukia Kuchiki Oh yeah, I forgot. You're probably in human high school. Or struggling with a juice box :)

@WasabiSauceKitten

Jordan Dansereau
Th-they're very tricky, those devil boxes are!

@IDontKnow-wf7vu

Rukia Kuchiki Using a juice box is almost as difficult as drawing a half-decent rabbit.

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@ayatcha7928

3y↑93

After years and years I came back to this masterpiece

@dawg4603

3y↑2

me too

@poseidon1680

8y↑478

This song, I... I don't know why but it gets me man.

Whenever something bad happens, I listen to it and I remember portal. And the rat mans story and how he couldn't give up even though he was down on his luck. And I think, I have to keep going... For the greater good.

@phillydaize9634

8y↑7

+Papa Meme same here, but i also listen to Gary Jules' "Mad World", and Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence".

@doicare1169

+Zomerset Zombie Ohhh, I love these. Donnie Darko/Watchmen feels.

@icansingstuff13

8y↑2

+Zomerset Zombie I love those, but I also love Hazy shade of winter by Simon and Garfunkel

@1diamond166

8y↑2

thank you, I needed that.

@stallingset7301

Zomerset Zombie ahhhh gears of war

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@Opcode_

8y↑292

I feel like this song would go well at some point during the movie The Martian

@quilverr613

8y↑6

+Austin Vickers pretty much any time in there

@timcuencaaarum2690

8y↑3

+Austin Vickers i agree

@IDontKnow-wf7vu

8y↑2

+Austin Vickers Matt Damooooon!!!

@TheSyntheticPop

8y↑1

+Austin Vickers Good Idea

@turbomong1377

8y↑13

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@binocularman8077

9y↑428

R.I.P Spy
Sad music

@JaceWind

9y↑53

Space Core Once upon a time in 2 fort?

@BasileCopy

9y↑1

JDubz yup

@padieeeeM

9y↑1

***** Can you link that video again I can't seem to find it :S ?

@MrCheezitsss

9y↑2

Me too I love those animations that give you the feels.

@MoonMoon-lq9qt

Catrina Lambert portal 2 :DDDDD easter egg :) Chamber 3 Chapter 2 :)

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@VanderzV

10y↑82

Ohh the memories from Portal 2, best game experience EVER and I will never forget when i found the radio playing this song, I was in a dreamstate for many minutes!

@cooldude5495

10y

Maybe you can find the single :D

@Luka2000_

3y↑41

Portal 2 turns 10 years old in a week....how time flies fast when you have fun

@twxzzy._

Yeah, and valve still dont continue the games :(

@Luka2000_

2y↑1

@@twxzzy._ no need to continue the portal franchise

@DreakPeak

2y↑1

@@Luka2000_ definetly! The Portal story is mostly finished. It'd be a cash grab if they made another

@twxzzy._

@@Luka2000_ youre right but jt still would be interesting to know what happens to chell after portal 2 or a little more lore about rattman

@Luka2000_

@@twxzzy._ not really. We dont need a game after portal 2, maybe a comic sure but no games needed

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@drkittie1407

1y↑41

I’m heartbroken they took it off Spotify, this shi help me sleep

@huntergates1117

52w

Same.

@Lardo99

10y↑105

"The Cake Is A Lie" - Douglas Rattmann

@mrchair5676

5y↑4

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade, Make life take the lemons back!” - Cave Johnson

@szabm3179

5y↑4

"I don't blame you" -Sentry Turret

@mrchair5676

5y↑5

"I dont remember posting that" -me

@greenhatzelda8273

5y↑4

"Yeah. Yeah! Take the lemons!"
-GLaDOS

@RaidianaS

5y↑1

“Nooooo cube!” - pretty much every portal player who met the companion cube for the first time.

@congealeddairy

10y↑97

I genuinely wish Rattmann could have stayed alive up to Portal 2, but hadn't it been for his selflessness, Chell would have died. Salutations to Doug, the man, who, despite his paranoid, schizophrenic state, sacrificed everything to save Chell.

@dictionarygoat9156

10y↑14

Thats the point though. Hes a tragic hero, hes sacrifice is so huge BECAUSE he died to do

@congealeddairy

10y↑1

Alana Byrne His ghost, perhaps? I'm still guessing.

@Ediiiiiiiiiii

10y↑10

"It's either the long sleep,or the long sleep..."

@dictionarygoat9156

10y↑1

Alana Byrne Well since he leaves this song on a radio thats my bet, just another radio. Or maybe its the copies of turrets that once hacked to pieces that have no memory of the incident. No idea what their shouting about

@_0yelk0_16

7y↑2

shoddy froggy Rattman died?

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@NingyoTheInkling

3y↑55

If this doesn't play at my funeral, I'm not leaving Earth

@ripelivejam

1y↑1

Multiple? Impressive.

@NingyoTheInkling

@@ripelivejam Wdym?

@richardjenkinsiii8942

@@NingyoTheInkling read what he said "funerals" it's a typo so he's poking fun at it 😅

@NingyoTheInkling

@@richardjenkinsiii8942 Oh, didn't notice that. Oh well, I guess I have extra lives then

@richardjenkinsiii8942

@@NingyoTheInkling 😆

@scaper8

7y↑96

I remember the first time I found that radio. I picked it up and didn't even move until the song ended; the piece was just so hauntingly beautiful and sad at the same moment. I felt as utterly along and isolated as Chell and, somehow, knew what is must be like to be god-only-knows how far in the future and possibly the last human on Earth so that I would be forever alone and isolated and that this would be last human voice I would ever hear again.

And then the radio went to silence and I found that I'd been crying a little and didn't even know it.

That's the power of music. Add to that the perfect placement in-game and, well, emotions distilled down to their very essence.

@Timothyboland1995

10y↑89

i remember after about 3 hours playing i found a radio that plays this in a pile of rubbish i just sat there listening to it.

@VitroTheAlien

10y↑28

If I were prisoned in this giant laboratory I would do the same.

@alea59681

10y↑4

3 hours? jeezus ._. i found it like about 30 minutes in...unless theres multiple

@Timothyboland1995

10y↑2

The one i found was in the lower levels "portal 2"

@holymackerelthethird2478

10y↑2

Oh my, I just found it in a videogame. Hope life get's better for you, less rubbish filled.

@carlosns4065

10y↑1

Holy Mackerel the Third You mean portal 2? Because, that's what they are talking about.

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@IDontKnow-wf7vu

7y↑63

@ThatClassyCombine

7y↑415

After the events of last night, this song is pretty fitting. Rest In Peace Gordon, and thank you for the memories.

@somerandomdudewithachannel325

6y↑18

ThatClassyCombine explain more of your story more specifically please

@imlegos2153

6y↑102

I think they were reffering to Marc Laidlaw leaving valve and posting "Epistle 3" or HL2 Episode 3's story

@somerandomdudewithachannel325

6y↑11

imlegos ok

@RobertFJr

6y↑47

Half Life 3 is currently being made by two different community teams to create two different versions. It isn't being made by Valve but the fans have always done great at taking their games to a whole new level.

@trickerino

5y↑24

@@RobertFJr except Hunt Down the Freeman, of course

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@TerWebz

1y↑34

Kinda sad and weird that this is gone from streaming services, love Portal 2.

@upyoursdotcom

1y↑6

Fuckin same. Love this song. Most of Brad Breeck's stuff got removed this past weekend too. Idk why

@UpsideDownCycle

4y↑74

The desolate radio sitting in an abandoned facility. The song playing on an endless loop, powered by god knows what creation of that desolate facility, echoing through dozens of corridors and once lively testing facilities and chambers. This song defines the entirety of the universe of Portal and Half-Life. But then you realize, the man, Rattmann, wandering solemnly through hallways, trying to stay sane for long enough to get out of the structurally unsound facility, hearing that song endlessly.

@killerwizrd555

43w↑1

this made me cry

@ProductionJournal

3y↑21

10 years later. Still fucking perfect.

@JeffarryLounder

30w↑14

This song really does communicate the feeling of exile. Being and feeling completely isolated from anyone or everything else. No wonder it fits so well into Portal. You can really tell this communicated exactly what Rattmann was feeling locked down here on his own constantly, with only his fragmented mind to keep him company.

@Ivan_p24

8y↑517

I have to say goodbye to my cat, its been 14 years. This song reminds me of her, i cry...man.

@Ivan_p24

8y↑5

***** im so sorry.

@Ivan_p24

8y↑5

***** ;)

@pizzacreeper10

8y↑14

Don't worry because you guys will be re united with your animals ;)

@Ivan_p24

8y↑2

TheHumanCaterpillar ;)

@hamburgersauze6002

Its okay tell someone to buy you a new one

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@EvilQueenofHearts

40w↑26

I wonder why this song is still missing from Spotify after 10 months?

@Sjors_

9y↑38

If you ask me, this song is about someone who's stuck in a depression and/or contemplating suicide, because they feel isolated from society ("Exile. It takes your mind again") and that previous successes have just been flukes ("You've got sucker's luck"). The singer tries to show sympathy and subtly remind this person that there's at least someone who cares about them ("Oh, you meant so much. Have you given up? Does it feel like a trial? Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?"), trying to dissuade them from doing something rash ("Now you're thinking too fast, you're like marbles on glass"). The latter part of the song, from 2:14 onward, sounds much more positive, showing that they're feeling much better, with the singer even reprimanding them for letting it get to that point ("Vilify, don't even try. Did you fall for the same emptinesses again?")

But that's just my take on it.

@VoidVee

All of this makes sense somehpw

@VoidVee

+Roarger how*

@anonymusdude9333

8y↑1

+Kapteindood excellent analys on the main purpose of the song you sir deserve a reward claps and im not joking im serious

@CottonMouthJo

Kapteindood only the writer knows what it's about

@jayfox8765

5y↑36

This song reminds me of Rathmines public school, when I was in my Portal craze, I made custom cores, turrets, PotatOs and a custom GLaDOS, I remember I introduced my pals to it and they got into the craze, we watched Portal 2 videos on the computers that were in our room (we were in a special ed classroom and had access to Youtube, we were responsible and trusted to not watch something inappropriate) we also watched Minecraft videos,like mods reviews and skits! But that was only two years of Rathmines 2015 and 2016, I got chocked up when I had to leave for highschool... my friends were Ryka, James, Benn and Ryda
when I left for high school Benn had to move away with his Dad, Ryka was with a foster family and got adopted by a family that lived away from Rathmines so he and his brother, Tyger (I don't know if that's how his name is spelt) had to move to, Ryda ended up in the mainstream classes, and James, he wasn't doing to well after all that, he's illiterate and has anger issues, but he's nice, he always got annoyed by Lawson, Lawson he CAN be nice sometimes, but he's just chooses to be irritating most of the time and that made James suffer bad days at school, I felt bad when I found out that... The type of person the James is like is simular to Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, I'll have to someday make a video about that because I think I've just wasted some of your time by making this a comment!

@MrSnoopy100

4y↑1

Makes me want to visit this place now.

@UKN2023

Hopefully you'll see each other again

@Luka2000_

4y↑32

Goddamn it valve....i grew up playing your games, having so much fun and then you went silent for almost a decade.....i think old valve is coming back in the 2020s but i cant believe its going to be 10 years since this masterpeice of a game came out.
Ill miss the late 2000s and early 2010s because of how good and popular valve games were...

@Kiwimite

10y↑78

Valve, you sure are amazing.

@ProZombieProductions

10y↑7

Indeed.

@joeylanders2872

10y↑4

Why would you credit valve with this?

@joeylanders2872

10y↑5

Draϟa I know that, i'm just wondering why you would credit Valve for using the song instead of The National for actually creating it.

@Kiwimite

10y↑3

That's actually a good point, I was a little unsure. They're both amazing, then!

@Femroe

10y↑8

Shadowclawsrevenge
To be fair mate, the song was created exclusively for Portal 2, so you probably have Valve to thank for getting the National to make it in the first place

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@rayzorrayzor9000

6y↑75

No Portal 2 for me , this just reminds me of the Darkness I entered after my wife took her own life . (She had written this song down ) I never even knew that she left me song lyrics until I finally heard this song .

@ytpanda398

6y↑16

Good god that is sad, I hope you recovered from that. It must have been a shock.

@rohanellis1234

3y↑12

Jesus Christ, man. Hope you're ok.

@TheONLYFeli0

2y↑4

I hope you've gotten better since you've written this.

@rayzorrayzor9000

2y↑18

@@TheONLYFeli0 , Hi , yeah you gotta let life move on otherwise the pain just drags you down and down .
When I finally forgave myself for not being there when my wife needed me the most , it was then that I started to heal .
My problem at the time was I blamed myself cos I knew there was a problem But I just thought it was down to the fact that I was working every hour I could to pay for everything , like couples tend to have to do when they first start out , I never in my wildest dreams did I think though that the problem was actually a deep depression from which she would never recover , I never even spotted the depression (I guess cos I was never there , I use to work till I was dead on my feet then come home to eat and crash out), I just thought my wife was moaning about wanting me to spend more time with her , like any woman would , however I mistakenly thought that having the money for nice things was more important , I learnt a harsh lesson .
My life since then is that money comes second every time .
Take Care and remember , yes we all want the finer things in life but nothing is more important than time spent with your partner . R .

@CM-du5qh

6y↑19

My 11 year old played this song for me and it nearly brought me to tears. Not only that it displayed depth of his feelings AND how it ties to his love for Portal but how our children have ways of communicating to us. So inspiring yet sad at the same time.

@RainbowDash499

4y↑50

I remember my brothers, cousin, and I listening to this because we loved Portal 2. My brother, who showed all of this, passed away recently. I'm so glad he shared Valve games with us all, they always will be close to my heart. Thank you bro, I miss you.

@krieg7610

39w↑1

I don't know him, and didnt know of him till now, i already miss him, i remember goin through on the xbox 360 with my brother sittin on the top bunk playin portal and borderlands, and to this day thoes games are my top favorites mostly portal tho dispite my name being krieg, named after a borderlands 2 character. im sorry you lost your brother, hope life is good for you

@SoNextJenn

4y↑11

I played through portal 2 again. I got the radio and just sat in a corner staring into the sky listening to this.

@elzzebells

2y↑38

why was this taken off of spotify. what is the reason. heartbroken

@TomClarke1995

4y↑20

Hearing this question “Does it feel like a trial” when I’ve been in hopeless places in my life has really filled me with something I can’t explain. Listening to this song, I can’t help but pick myself up defiantly against everything pulling me down.

Everyone needs a song like this to bring them back.

@nonpublicpretexto283

5y↑9

The way the violin weeps is just hauntingly beautiful

@TakuroSpirit

9y↑125

This song was written for Portal 2, yet all the commenters are here, somehow, because of TF2, which came out before this song was written.

@mymanpaddymcnair1950

9y↑8

+Cinichecuk an animation used it

@sean7610

8y↑1

look up "once upon a time in 2fort" and watch part 1 and 2

@abcdefzhij

8y↑1

+Cinichecuk It's because "Once Upon A Time In 2fort", probably the greatest SFM of all time, used it.

@SUPER-RIFT

+Cinichecuk

At least both games're made by Valve.

@moekitsune

+Andrew Ricklefs What's an SFM?

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@helenawave

10y↑38

Once Upon A Time In 2fort :(

@LocketInThinePocket

10y↑4

1209shaman Dammit, noooo my feels are fragile. :(

@JessCaron

8y↑402

I feel bad for fans of the National who like this song. We're very sorry we outshout you on your own turf.

Would some cake make you feel better?

@mossy...

8y↑16

eyyy i see what you did theree

@JessCaron

8y↑6

Mossypath WHEEEEEEEE runs away

@tylerdavis9565

8y↑22

the cake is a lie .-.

@michaelgreenwalt2547

7y↑5

"cake or death!?" um cake please

@lukeberrie3942

I think we'll be on our way out.

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@matthewgarnier7701

3y↑26

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

Oh, you meant so much
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Does it feel like a trial?
Now, you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?

Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same
Empty answers again?

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify

@pixelz9256

8y↑87

This song is just... so powerful...

@crippo3226

8y↑12

Sorry not to be mean, but I can't take you seriously with that profile picture 😂😂

@pixelz9256

8y↑2

xD I know lol

@curiositis135

8y↑9

like if cry every time ( ; ^ ;)

@Hevelord

7y↑3

HMHMHMM (gonna burst out laughing) god dammit

@serarchive23

7y↑2

i agree but that beautiful pic of ethan really doesnt make it better

@Julian_H

9y↑46

2011 was a pretty great year in gaming...

@jacejenius

1y↑7

The fact I’m literally tearing up shows how Portal this is.

@clochibi5568

1y↑13

This song was a staple in my playlists 9 years ago or so. I just played it out loud for the first time in years and the lyrics came back in a second.

Bonus: I had my hamster out, running around, but she stopped to listen to the violins in the song, staring straight at me. So there’s that!

@giggertmcbabby5140

8y↑286

Damn a lot of us are really sad and empty and this sucks lmao we all understand that but its crazy how so many people can hear the same song and feel the same way with the same shitty thoughts simultaneously. As alone as I feel its like I'm accompanied lol. Like we're all on our own planes in loneliness, all secluded and dark, but at the same time, we're all in the same spot. Shits crazy yo hope it doesn't take as long as its taking for me to get rid of it lol.

@honeycoatedparadox

alright not to undervalue the value of your comment but at the time of writing of this reply you have 69 likes and i don't want to change that

@mbecerra2010

Great analysis. Good shit!

@zalve8010

Well duh it's a sad song :(

@zarrowthehorse

Naw yall are just easily swayed by emotions. I still love this song regardless and get nostalgic when I feel it. It's just the comment section sounding sad that influences others to type sad comments.

@ghostgamer453

10y↑21

The first time I found the rattmans cave with this song playing I felt like crying because it was just so sad

@buddyimboden8444

2y↑7

I was a kid when portal 2 came out and I vividly remember playing the game for the first time. When the radio started playing this song I just sat there and stopped playing. Just staring at the screen. Not really sure why but it felt like I sat there for a really long time

@distarche

3y↑10

This is the kind of game we only see once in a lifetime. Happy 10th Anniversary <3

@NerosGamingHole

3y↑3

I'm playing through it again at the moment and recounting the memories of things that have happened in the last 10 and a bit years. Mental how time flies.

@shazb0lt

10y↑64

Poor Scout. :(

@antond12312

10y

?? Wrong video

@antond12312

10y

Then i have seen it :-)

@Juspher919

10y↑7

Poor Scout, all his friends are dead. Replaced by other mercenaries. :(

@liam3626

10y↑2

The scout is rich though. He's got a black painted Bills hat :P still, a tale of two forts was amazing.

@ollies1359

10y↑1

dat ahegao tho

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@gabitex

10y↑449

Once Upon A Time in 2Fort

@kafbff

10y↑4

Yup.

@holben27

10y↑24

once upon a time in portal 2

@theLolixd

10y↑3

Yes ... so sad ...

@foxywoxy0w068

10y↑10

love the video Once Upon A Time in 2Fort it made me cry :'''(

@gabitex

10y↑2

TheLolixD Good old memories

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@JadeEyes1

8y↑11

I heard this song for the first time on the day my niece was born. To this day, it still brings me to tears.

@heavyeatingguy7687

+JadeEyes1 Soooo... You were born on 2011?

@JadeEyes1

No. My niece was.

@prettyprincess88881

8y↑2

+JadeEyes1 thats so lovely! congrats on ur niece (a very very late congrats)

@JohnFrancisVillines

5y↑7

"Does it feel like a trial..." Man. Found this song at a particular moment in my life.

I'm not gonna give up.

@mitchellsmith6086

8y↑578

Oh hey, how are you holding out because I am a potato

@endangeredpanda9720

8y↑34

Chel: I'm just dandy.
PotAtOS: WHAT?! (blows fuse)
PotAtOS: (reboots) Wow you spoke

@deleted9778

7y↑1

its. spelled. diddly. damn. Chell.

@endangeredpanda9720

7y↑1

Do you think I care? I made that reply a long time ago.

@deleted9778

7y↑1

Collin Argyle I don't care if you care I just wanted to point out it was wrong incase you haven't realized

@endangeredpanda9720

Okay......... One l on the name of a person from a video game doesn't make much of a difference.

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@pillscapsules

8y↑169

This song is fucking great. The lyrics just sound exactly what Chell would say to Glados after the ending of Portal 2. "Have you given up?"
Tho it makes me sad that the series had to end. Well, it seems like it ended.

@primrose9693

8y↑14

+Rick Sanchez It is supposed to be Doug Rattman singing. He is singing to Chell.

@intsukeL

8y↑5

+Rick Sanchez if portal 3 comes out i will be happy casue theres so many mysterys

@pillscapsules

scorpyYT
saem

@jackyfalasa849

8y↑2

but chell just want freedom she want a happy ending

@soulsearcher117

8y↑2

I've heard that there may be a Portal 3 coming out one day. I hope it does though.

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@_.Dylan._

4y↑27

This song makes me feel sad and nostalgic but there is a mix of another feeling there isn’t a word for. It’s uncomfortable but comforting at the same time. It makes me feel like Im not very alive compared to when I was a kid. It reminds me that life really sucks but life was beautiful. I hope life can be beautiful again.

@wanderingrequiem5032

8y↑74

I beat Portal 2 twice ~~Next to Undertale and Overwatch, Portal 2 is my most favorite game!~~ I'll be honest. When Wheatley was shown in space at the starting screen when I beat the game the first time, I was in pure TEARS! Wheatley was my favorite character and it honestly broke my heart to see how he changed in the game. Portal was a well made game, and I honestly pray and hope that they make a third one!

@Rin-jo4yb

8y↑2

You can't beat Overwatch it doesn't have a story mode

@wanderingrequiem5032

I just realized XD I am a idiot, I know that now

@rivercanoe2409

8y↑4

You do know that Valve hates the number 3 right?

@wanderingrequiem5032

River Canoe No, to be honest

@kathrynzee9210

8y↑7

You do know that is a dead meme right?
Quit beating the dead horse.

That aside, Portal 2 is probably one of the better games in existence.

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@jakespacepiratee3740

3y↑8

"Expect no further correspondance from me, this is my final episode."
-Yours in infinite finality, Gordon Freeman, PhD.

@thatskyvee

17w↑4

Happy 2024 to the remaining portal fandom.

@wedmunds

7y↑18

Every day ask yourself... did you fall for the same empty answers again?

@danthompson6104

4y↑1

how is any answer empty when it fills up the day?

@chadzahirshah2588

@@danthompson6104 It’s when the answer didn’t answer your thoughts or wasn’t satisfying enough

@diskdrive6113

5y↑12

I was going through a rough time with bad relationships with family members. I love portal and this song helped me a lot and I feel really healthy and happy, thanks to the people who made this song for helping me through the bad

@zombeats2160

9y↑334

I'm here because of Portal 2

@aquavert4083

9y↑12

***** Who isn't?

@gonefishing655

9y↑5

Jester Bester im not. im here from onca apon a time in 2fort

@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin

9y↑4

ZomBeats That's where the song is from...

@rezzEE897

ZomBeats i'm here beacuse of team fortress 2 :)

@sovietsalad839

9y↑6

+Steve Point I'm here because of JOHN CENA

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@_Devil

1y↑8

"Does it trouble your mind the way, you trouble mine" Really resonates with me.
There are a lot of people whom I once knew that I no longer talk to, and are without ways to contact them again.
I always wonder If I'm ever on their mind, if they ever think of me even if it's in a negative way. It sucks to be remembered as a bad memory, sure, but it's even worse to be forgotten completely.
Puffa.Lump, Layla, Mars, Lily. About 4 others others whom I forgot the names of. I know you'll never see this, but I still have you all in my memory. Even if we only talked for a few months each between 2018 and 2020, those were the best (and worst) 2 damn years of my life on Instagram and you guys really shaped me into who I am today. I still remember all of you, both the negatives and the positives. The fights and the love. The break-ups and the make-ups. Everything.
I really hope you all remember me, too. I hope you haven't forgotten me in the way I haven't forgotten you. I hope it all troubled your mind in the way you troubled mine.

@themysteriousstrangerofnow490

46w↑6

I feel that this melody fervently conveys the tragedy, the sorrow and apathy that is ratman's psyche. All melting and culminating together into a masterpiece that brings you through thoughts of pure beauty and yet pure pain as it Carrie's you through its elegant tune. Leaving you alone with its echoes....

@deanfinder503

2y↑9

Why must this be taken away from us 😭

@Gutsy12

9y↑88

I've had depression for 7 long years it doesn't go away, those days when you feel just fine its not that I should know it just comes and bites you back harder after that my 7 long years hurt so badly I've considered suicide and of course failed, break ups don't really hurt when your in depression, except for my most recent one.....it was on Christmas I was about to propose to her literally I was just about to pull out the ring and boom I get dumped that one really hurt but what happens happens most of the time its bad to me but this isn't about me to all of you guys out there who are depressed or hurt don't give up there are people who care about you so don't give up this song eases the pain even if just a little bit

@ErmineProductionsTV

9y↑6

Your a real man. I can't believe that happened to you. While reading this story I almost cried and it takes a lot to make me cry. Hang in there. I'm only 12 but Skype me if you need someone to help you. I've been told I'm good at getting people into good spirits.

@ErmineProductionsTV

9y↑2

***** I don't like to see people in pain.

@ErmineProductionsTV

***** :)

@Gutsy12

to those of you who are calling me strong and all i must thank you

@ErmineProductionsTV

***** you really are a good person. i can tell you truly are a hero :)

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@Nipotazzi

45w↑4

In front of you beholds a seemingly Infinite facility, with rooms that stretch into the horizon, each and every one of them filled with deadly traps, and not even the walls are safe.

An incredible loneliness hunts your mind.

And yet, you still endure.

@strangeacelegume

17w↑5

It feels so stupid for a song that’s from Portal 2, a game I’m horribly obsessed with, to become my comfort song but honestly, I love it. It feels soft, and comforting, and grey, and it smells like rain— it makes me think of those days where the clouds are overcast and maybe raining, but in the short distance the sun is so bright that the world is both grey and yellow and green and blue all at once. It’s beautiful. And listening to the song makes me think of Portal which makes me happy.

I want to try and animate Portal and Portal 2 completely as if films. I don’t know if anyone’s done that before, but I’d like to even if they have. I have this idea of Chell finding the den and the radio, and solemnly looking at the Doug Rattman’s wall art reflecting on how hard it’s been just to end up right back where she started, testing under GLaDOS’ rule, and eventually sitting down with the radio in her arms playing the song. It fades out as she falls asleep, and a dream sequence animation plays for the rest of the song before it eventually ends and fades back out and Chell wakes up. She gets up, portals out of the den, finishes the test and leaves the radio just in front of the Emancipation Grill so that it lives on forever.

I can’t guarantee that I’ll ever actually do this or even be able to, but I like to think about doing it, and I like to think about it.

@thatskyvee

17w↑3

STOP YOU'RE MAKING ME CRY

@strangeacelegume

17w↑1

@@thatskyvee NEVER >:D

@kR-qj7rw

17w↑1

Nah I've felt the same way since ten years ago lol

@gigawatt6018

2y↑8

Most of the users here are talking about Portal 2, but I'm here for the song itself. I remember when I was much younger and heard this song... it was peaceful, but made me cry. Now, I sit here remembering lost love. Trying to move past it.

For those here for similar or identical reasons, don't give up. We may have suckers luck, our minds may be troubled, but we will triumph... no matter what the task is. I believe in you. Because if you're here... nobody tells you that enough, when you deserve to be told that frequently. I may not know you, but I know what you're going through enough to feel that even though I may not be speaking directly to you... you genuinely deserve to know that even some silly stranger believes in you.

@tjson2206

2y↑5

i agree and although i found the song because of portal the reason i love it so much but makes me sad is it reminds me about my parents divorce and how my dad was forced out of my life and how he had to constantly struggle just to survive with the little bit of money he was making and for me it was dealing with the neglect from my mom and her boyfriend who was a drunk and smoked.
and every time i listen to this song it reminds me of it

@madisonjacobs2520

Thank you

@jjc2896

10y↑8

This song stopped me dead in game. It just blew me away with the emotions it triggered. It almost brought me to tears. This song is speck of gold in the music we hear today.

@deltafirexx

1y↑9

i go through phases where this song will be the only thing i listen to on repeat for weeks.. genuinely distraught over the removal of this song on streaming services :(

@SuborbitalPigeon

21w

Someone's lived a very sheltered life

@Evanski

5y↑8

shoots portal at moon, gets sucked into space, silence, credits roll, this song plays

@reur3965

I mean, think about it, what that actually means: after a very long sleep, Chell wakes up, just to notice that she has to do everything all over again. She has already been through way too much, she thinks she is completely alone. And maybe the one person Ratman put all his faith in, the one that is supposedly never giving up, suddenly sees the Moon (for the first time in years), remembers what she learned about moonrocks, looks at her chances to ever get out of this nighmare, looks at what she is doing all of this for, and decides to give up by shooting a portal to a place of no return

@dertegh

3y↑12

I think I wanna go back to my portal phase now

@LittleBlockyCube

3y↑1

agreed

@ventabIack

1y↑5

the portal series was a very big part of my life growing up. i completely forgot about this song for probably a good 8 years? i immediately started crying listening to it again after so long. the song is sad in itself, but music we relate to our childhood always stings harder the older we get. this song reminds me of innocent times. :(

@VillagerMan2006

1y↑5

Feels like a darker version of “Down to Earth” from Wall-E.

Maybe this is from the last days of Operation Cleanup, Toxicity levels rising, Shelby’s defeat, and the last humans leaving Earth.

@FoxNoitre10

38w↑3

I was playing through portal 2 for the 8th or 10th time (on switch the second time) when i discovered the radio and ironically in the past few years of me playing through the game on the regular i have never heard this song until now. I was always under the assumption that it just played the portal 1 tune. As a little omage to portal 1 but no its this.