Still Alive
Jonathan Coulton ft. Ellen McLain Lyrics

This was a triumph
I achieved something great

I'm making a note here; "Huge success"
I want to acknowledge my own great achievement

It's hard to overstate
It's difficult to fully express

My satisfaction
How happy I am with what I achieved

Aperture Science:
The company that I work for

We do what we must
We do what needs to be done

Because we can
Because we have the ability to do so

For the good of all of us
To benefit everyone

Except the ones who are dead
But not those who have passed on

But there's no sense crying
It doesn't make sense to be upset

Over every mistake
About every error that has been made

You just keep on trying
It's important to keep on attempting

Till you run out of cake
Until you have nothing left

And the science gets done
And the research is completed

And you make a neat gun
And you create a cool device

For the people who are
To benefit those who

Still alive
Are still living

I'm not even angry
I'm not even upset

I'm being so sincere right now
I'm genuinely speaking the truth

Even though you broke my heart,
Even though you hurt me deeply,

And killed me
And 'killed' my emotions

And tore me to pieces
And completely shattered me

And threw every piece into a fire
Destroyed everything I had become

As they burned it hurt because
As the pieces were thrown into the fire, it was extremely painful

I was so happy for you
But I was genuinely happy for your success

Now, these points of data
Now that I have this information

Make a beautiful line
It can be represented as a great graph

And we're out of beta
It's no longer in its testing phase

We're releasing on time
It will be launched as planned

So I'm GLaD I got burned
So I'm happy that I faced challenges in this process

Think of all the things we learned-
Reflecting on all the important lessons we learned

For the people who are
To benefit those who

Still alive
Are still living

Go ahead and leave me
You can leave me now

I think I'd prefer to stay inside
I'd rather stay where I am

Maybe you'll find someone else
Maybe you'll find another person

To help you?
To assist you?

Maybe Black Mesa?
Maybe you can go to Black Mesa instead

That was a joke *Haha - Fat Chance*
I was just joking, it's unlikely

Anyway this cake is great
In any case, this cake is fantastic

It's so delicious and moist
It's very tasty and moist

Look at me: still talking
I'm still here, still talking

When there's science to do
When there's more research to be done

When I look out there,
As I look out there,

It makes me GLaD I'm not you
It makes me happy that I'm not in your position

I've experiments to run
I have experiments to complete

There is research to be done
There is still research that needs to happen

On the people who are
On the people who

Still alive
Are still living

And believe me I am
And I can assure you that I am

Still alive
Still living

I'm doing science and I'm
I'm currently experimenting and

Still alive
Still living

I feel fantastic and I'm
I feel amazing and I'm

Still alive
Still living

While you're dying I'll be
While you're experiencing downfall, I'll be

Still alive
Still living

And when you're dead I will be
And once you're gone, I'll still be

Still alive
Still living

Still alive
Still Living (Got repeated at the end of the song)