Before you play the video below, please note that it could spoil the ending of Portal 2 for you as it contains the actual song that plays at the end of the game and the ending cinematic. The ending track was composed by none other than singer-songwriter and self-described geek Jonathan Coulton and sung by Ellen McLain (GLaDOS).
Portal 2 End Credits Song Want You Gone
[Check out the Portal Credit song ‘Still Alive’]
[Click here for some Jonathan Coulton kinetic typography music video]
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Want You Gone
(by GLaDOS)
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
Go make some new disaster
That’s what I’m counting on
You’re someone else’s problem
Now I only want you gone
Now I only want you gone
Now I only want you…
gone
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[If you like the song, check out Jonathan Coulton’s website.]