If you read the promo comic "Lab Rat," (viewable /comic/) you find out that Rattmann was a scientist employed by Aperture who survived GLaDOS's purge, and spent years wandering the facility alone, increasingly suffering from schizophrenia as his medication ran out. My explanation is a little spoilery, though, so skip it if you want your Portal experience to be totally fresh: It reminds me more of Doug Rattmann, another character from the game. My OpinionI think it's unusual that this song would only be about Chell, since she's described as incredibly tenacious - she never, ever gives up - and the song seems to be about feeling powerless. And in contrast to that the advice of the resigned and disillusioned narrator that says "Accept instead of trying to find empty answers". "Did you fall for the same empty answers again?" means the attempt to give yourself reasons to eplain why things are like they are, because it's always easier to believe in something than to accept the senselessness of your condition. Then I think "Vilify, don't even try" means, that the person sould stop asking itself because it's senseless and just accept the condition even if it seems absurd. Then "you lived so much" sounds like if he actually doesn't want that "living" anymore and want to take a break.Īlthough I'm not sure about the link between "does it feel like a trial" and "No, you're thinking too fast, You're like marbles on glass", i think the second one is a beautiful image. In those situation everything seems heavy: "suckers luck", you feel like giving up, "feels like a trial": life feels like a burden ect. You feel low then it goes better, then low again and better again and so on. It's a kind of up and down thing like in R.E.M.s "Low": "Up and down, High and low, Low low low" that symbolizes the cours of life. It's a situation the narrator or the person he's talking about knows really well, "it takes your mind again". Exile is when your mind starts drifting away from your routine, from your friends and your family, when everything seems absurd and ridiculous. Exile is the feeling you have when you start asking yourself abstract questions, when you start losing touch to everydays life and think "Why?".
I think "Exile" stands for the state he is in, as he says that it takes his mind again.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.General CommentKnowing nothing about the game I'll talk about the possible meaning from the writers point of view. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on. 5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? How would you rank it among the rest of the band’s discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?
This is the song the National contributed to the soundtrack to the 2011 video game, Portal 2.
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