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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
Well, you lived 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
Don't even try
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
Well, you lived 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
Don't even try
Lyrics submitted by fordandfitzroy
Track duration: 04:45
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He's singing about someone who has exiled themselves from love, human contact, etc. because of their "sucker's luck" with people in the past ("lived so much"). They've given up and hence exiled themselves, but there is something/ someone on their mind and it won't go away. And he's asking if that bothers them that this person is on his mind; so much so that the exile feels like they're in a trial of some sort because they are being so closely "watched" for lack of a better word.
When he says "vilify. Don't even try.", and "you're thinking too fast, you're like marbles on glass" he is saying "Don't try to bad talk this connection we have and don't over think it. Just go with it."
Anyways. That's my two cents. Beautiful song.
I suggest this song is from Rattman's point of view, not addressed toward Chell but toward Caroline, the human being who became the basis for the GLaDOS AI. Since Rattman was on the crew that created GLaDOS it seems likely that he would be deeply troubled by the horrific results of his work.
"Exile, it takes your mind again" refers to how they literally took her mind and it is now trapped apart from humanity and everything she used to be.
"Vilify" refers to how being connected to the Aperture network has turned her evil (as it did for Wheatley when he was connected instead)
"Sucker's luck" refers to her becoming effectively immortal at the cost of her humanity (not a great trade for her).
"Have you given up" is asking if she's even trying to remember who she used to be any more.
"No, you're thinking too fast, You're like marbles on glass" refers to the increase in her mental capacity and accompanying loss of sanity from the cybernetic conversion.
"Don't even try" may be Rattman's acknowledgement that Caroline has no choice, she can not escape her fate or stop herself from doing what she does.
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See, I've always heard it as "Well, you've meant so much/Have you given up?"
Taken this way, it sounds like a question from Doug to Chell. Chell is Rattmann's only hope of escape, of freedom. But more than that, he also cares about Chell, which is why he went back in to save her at the end of "Lab Rat".
This might also explain the "Does it trouble your mind/The way you trouble mine?" line. He feels conflicted about trying to use Chell for his own ends, and in the process pretty much sentencing her to her death at the hands of GLaDOS; which is why he went back in, to try to save her.
Fell free to tear this apart, its just my interpretation.
Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again
Reflects his position as a fugitive from GLaDOS, everyone's favorite homicidal computer, and how he's gone somewhat insane.
You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
A possible comment from GLaDOS to Doug.
Does it feel like a trial?
Not sure here.
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?
This part is a hypothetical message to Chell, everyone's favorite portal gun user. Doug is concerned about her safety in these horribly dangerous chambers.
Well, you lived so much
Have you given up?
This might be a message to Chell. Doug's asking, "you've gotten this far, but have you finally quit?"
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine?
Repeated lyrics.
Does it feel like a trial?
No, you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass
Reflects the stupidity of replacing GLaDOS with Wheatley.
Vilify
Don't even try
Maybe GLaDOS's insults?
Did you fall for the same
Empty answers again?
The last non-repeated text! Tells how, even though Chell did everything Wheatley wanted, she was not let free.
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
If you don't want to read the comic, here's a quick summary. One of the scientists working on GlaDOS manages to survive her attack (she requested toxin claiming it was for an experiment), and was on the run from her, trying to escape. He finds a companion cube and starts talking to it, as he develops schizophrenia from not taking his meds. He places Chell at the top of the "testing list" because of a report stating her dangerous tendency to never give up - a perfect adversary to GlaDOS. But when he manages to escape, he suddenly feels guilty for using her, and goes back to try and save her. He places her in a cryogenic chamber, which practically places her into a comatose state. From that point onwards, it's not known what happens to him.
Exile - means "away from home". Both Doug and Chell are far from their homes, but the lab sort of becomes home.
It takes your mind again - refers to Doug's schizophrenia. His mind forces him to listen to inanimate objects as if they were real
You've got sucker's luck - Both of them are trapped in the lab, in their destiny to stay in the lab. They can't escape.
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial? - these two lines refer to the difficulty of the trials that GlaDOS places, as well as Doug's trials.
Does it trouble your mind
The way you trouble mine? - My favorite line. It's so damn romantic, as if Doug has fallen in love with Chell and at the end cares more about her survival than his own.
Whatever the case may be, few video game songs are as deep and thematic as this.
But "lived so much" as an above poster mentioned goes perfectly with Rattmann's story. Spending years alone, hiding and crazy would give anybody the worn-out and hopeless tone this song has.
It is a videogame, for PC PS3 and 360. It is how the song got famous, I didn't think to many people knew about it before. Anyway, Valve, the company who made it wanted to make sure it matched up to the games single player campaign, when they found it.
There was even a winning music video, or two for it, that they announced a winner for just this week.
I think "Exile" stands for the state he is in, as he says that it takes his mind again. Exile is the feeling you have when you start asking yourself abstract questions, when you start losing touch to everydays life and think "Why?". Exile is when your mind starts drifting away from your routine, from your friends and your family, when everything seems absurd and ridiculous.
It's a situation the narrator or the person he's talking about knows really well, "it takes your mind again". 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. You feel low then it goes better, then low again and better again and so on.
In those situation everything seems heavy: "suckers luck", you feel like giving up, "feels like a trial": life feels like a burden ect.
Then "you lived so much" sounds like if he actually doesn't want that "living" anymore and want to take a break.
Although 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.
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. Vilify, don't even try to understand.
"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. And in contrast to that the advice of the resigned and disillusioned narrator that says "Accept instead of trying to find empty answers".
ok. did anyone else notice that both songs with words(in english at least); seem to be about departure.
an exile is one who is forced to leave, perhaps because they have been vilified(i.e. scapegoated into being a villan.) also, both Glados and wheatley both blame you for things that is their fault. In other words Glados hates you because you tried to kill her, but she started it, by exposing you to more and more dangers(in the first game of course). Then in the second game she tells you that she is researching sharks for an upcomming test. Then she asks you if you know who kills people who are only trying to help them and asks if you thought it was sharks. She then tells you that thats wrong, that only you are that pointlessly cruel. Also wheatley, once hes plugged into the mainframe; tells you that hes on to you too and that hes tired of you bossing you around. um...chell cant even say the word apple. she is as glados says "a dangerous mute lunatic", but not really. Its just that shes mute(or silent at least). So...something in that mainframe makes people go mad with power and makes the emperor have no clothes.
Also the name "evile villify" almost sounds like a banishing spell name. lol