Everyone Says 'Hi'

The song is actually about someone close to you who died. There is a quote that David Bowie said himself about the song.

""Everyone Says "Hi" everyone seems jolly in tone, but is about the passing away of somebody. It was a general song about losing someone in one's life and wasn't written about anyone specifically. I had the sense of when my father died, and it seemed he had only gone away for a while and it was some time for me to reconcile that he wasn't coming back."

Yeah, i read that too...i think there's also a bit of sad humor in it, because you would love it if everyone you ever knew just said a friendly "hello" for no real reason, but they wait to do it til you're dead.

This song makes me think of a close friend who moved away. It makes me sad. Especially the line, "We can do all the old things."

This song grows and grows on you. its lovely innocence pervades throughout.

This song is about someone leaving, and Bowie is trying to convince him/her to come back home. This song can be thought for dedication to the soldiers at Op Iraqi Freedom.

Yeah, the song is so happy.

I've always associated this song with death.

I've always associated this song with Amplitude. Well, the remix anyway. It's good, I reccomend.

i love how bowie takes topics like death and couches them in unconventional settings (like a pop tune). but it works, because there's this wistful well-wishing for the departed person in the song. it's one of the most bittersweet songs i've heard. one question: is the "guy upstairs" god? haha.

i picked up on the death of someone close thing too.. but for me it seems like from a child's point of view, mostly because the euphemisms "they" said.