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Title: What are the lyrics to the song PotatOS Lament on Volume 2 of the Portal 2 Soundtrack?
Question: What are the lyrics to the song "PotatOS Lament" on Volume 2 of the Portal 2 soundtrack? It doesn't sound like English (though some parts do sound like the word "potatoes").   Is it another language? Or just gibberish?

Answers:
sents: text: All signs point to the actual lyrics being a mixture of gibberish and bad Italian/Latin.
text: In reponse to a question about the Turret Song on Reddit , Ellen McLain answered as follows:
text: The composer, Mike Morasky was the driving force behind the Turret Opera.
text: He wrote all the music.
text: He requested that I use my legit voice (operatic sound) on some of the takes.
text: He chose the takes to use.
text: He asked me to make up some words.
text: So I did so in my bad Italian.
text: This most likely carried over to the PotatOS Lament song, as further strengthened by a thread on the Steam forums , pointing to an appearance of Ellen McLain at Anime Midwest 2011 of which a Youtube video is included in the post.
text: During the panel the PotatOS Lament song is specifically mentioned, however Ellen names it
text: "GLaDOS Lament", of which the following is said: She then goes on to say she made up words to it using her "bad High School Latin" (lol) which means the song is both Latin AND gibberish.
text: So there we have it!
text: Bad Latin/Italian and gibberish.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/11255/Niels Walta
score: 9
sents: text: Potato Lacrimosa (Weeping Potato) Potato Po Uota (Power Potato Vows) Diva Me
text: A Atra Anima Evicta
text: (My soul won over by the black goddess) Diu E Me
text: A Atra A
text: Mei A Adiu (Me from my long blackout, from any aid)
text: Tristi Anima Evicta (Sadness won over my soul)
text: Tristi Demu Notu (Sadness at last known)
text: Do
text: Mo Nata Anima Evicta (I give only the soul born the right to win) Dega
text: Mi
text: Atra Ala Te
text: Teme Cha
text: (You yourself live because of the black wing of my charity)
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/21784/Maximiliano
score: 5
sents: text: I don't think it has anything to do with the ending turret song '
text: Cara Mia'.
text: I think it sounds like she's singing lyrics to Vitrification Order on the Second Volume.
text: I'll let you determine if that's the song she's singing.
text: You can hear it near the end of the song for sure, but you need to really listen for it.
text: As for the lyrics, she's probably singing in Italian...
text: Still trying to get the lyrics myself if it is indeed in Italian.
text: But yeah, definitely listen to Vitrification Order and tell me that it doesn't sound like PotatOS Lament.
text: But, this might also help.
text: I can hear 'lacrimosa' at the beginning of the Lament. '
text: Potato Lacrimosa' to be exact.
text: Translate it, you get 'Crying or Tearful Potato".
text: I can make out other words too.
text: Sounds a lot like Mozart's piece Lacrimosa - Requiem.
text: Here's the Lyrics .
text: Lacrimosa dies illaQua resurget ex favillaJudicandus homo reus.
text: Huic ergo parce, Deus:
text: Pie Jesu Domine,Dona eis requiem.
text: Amen.
text: English translationTearful will be that dayon which from the ashes will risethe guilty man for judgment.
text: So have mercy, O Lord, on this man.
text: Compassionate Lord Jesus,grant them rest.
text: Amen.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/11042/Chelsey T.
score: 4
sents: text: Sounds like it might be a remix of this song , though the words have been garbled to be less intelligible.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/336/Raven Dreamer
score: 2
sents: text: I'm guessing it's Latin, judging by the occasional "Dominus" (meaning God)
text: I can understand.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/10861/Katlyn
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
It sounds like a mixture of bad Latin, Italian and gibberish.
The lyrics are a mixture of Latin/Italian and Gibberish.