This song is an easter egg in the video game Portal 2. Originally, it was intended as a “fake ending,” where the player would find a hole in the roof of Aperture Science, and the moon would be visible. The player would shoot a portal at the moon and would be sucked in. Once the player dies, credits would roll, and “Exile Vilify” would play in the background. This easter egg, however, was removed, due to how playtesters easily overlooked it.

The whole song evokes the relationship between the main character, Chell, and the first game’s antagonist, GLaDOS, as the former navigates the deadly Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center. Fragments of the lyrics appear on the walls of the facility in a hidden section, where the song is playing on a radio.

It is possible that the song is intended to be from the point of view of one of the background characters, Doug Rattman, who is ostensibly the one who scrawled the lyrics (among other graffiti) on the walls of the Enrichment Center.