- Not to be confused with Portal: Still Alive, a port of the original game for the Xbox 360 with extra content.
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Still Alive (song)
"Still Alive" is the song that plays alongside the ending credits of Portal after the player "kills" GLaDOS and subsequently causes the destruction of the Enrichment Center.
Contents
- 1 Video
- 2 Track
- 3 Lyrics
- 4 Connection to game
- 4.1 GLaDOS
- 5 Trivia
- 6 Composition
Video
Track
Still Alive by Jonathon Coulton [2:56]| Download | Play
Lyrics
It's hard to overstate Aperture Science. But there's no sense crying I'm not even angry. And tore me to pieces. Now these points of data Go ahead and leave me. Anyway this cake is great Look at me still talking when there's science to do I've experiments to run And believe me I am still alive This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
huge success.
My satisfaction.
We do what we must
Because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
Over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
Till 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 being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you!
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.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you.
Maybe Black Mesa...
THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE.
It's so delicious and moist
When I look out there
It makes me GLaD I'm not you.
There is research to be done
On the people who are
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.
Connection to game
GLaDOS
- "Except the ones who are dead" - Peoples that are killed by GLaDOS via Neurotoxin
- "And you make a neat gun" - The Handheld Portal Device.
- "Still Alive" - GLaDOS revealed to be alive at the end of the game.
- "Even though you broke my heart and killed me" - Chell presumably killing GLaDOS.
- "And tore me to pieces" - Presumably Chell detaching GLaDOS' Personality Cores
- "And threw every piece into a fire" - Chell dumping the personality cores into Emergency Intelligence Incinerator
- "Now these points of data make a beautiful line" - Information received from Chell's experiment created a graphical data that GLaDOS said it was "beautiful".
- "We're releasing on time" - the Portal series' release date was exact and on time, even showing snapshots of the game, rather than the Half Life series' terrifyingly late release date.
- "I think I prefer to stay inside" - GLaDOS is infrastructurally created to the Enrichment Center and physically bolted to the Central AI Chamber, so GLaDOS is unable to move other than the respective place. This is some kind of sarcasm.
- "Maybe Black Mesa... THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE" - Black Mesa is a company competing against Aperture Science in the Half-Life universe. In Half-Life: Opposing Force Black Mesa was nuked
- "It makes me GLaD I'm not you" - A very intended, bad word pun of GLaDOS.
Trivia
- "Still Alive" was also used in Left 4 Dead 2 as an easter egg on a jukebox that can be found in the campaigns "The Parish" and "The Passing".
- An instrumental version of "Still Alive" can be heard on some radios in Portal.
- The words "HA HA" are not lyricized.
Composition
"Still Alive" was written by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "Want You Gone", and was sung by Ellen McLain, Voice actor for GLaDOS and opera singer. She also sang "Want You Gone" during the end credits of Portal 2.
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Songs | Still Alive (song)·Want You Gone·Turret Opera·Exile Vilify·You Wouldn't Know |
Albums | Portal soundtrack·Portal 2 soundtrack |
Other | Portal 2 Music Video Contest |
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