Lyric discussion by maneatingmango 

Cover art for Hello lyrics by Evanescence

So its about her sister. When I first heard it I saw it being different. I imagined it being that some little kids are playing at a playground. One girl accidentallypushes her friend and her friend falls. When she doesn't get up someone goes and gets their parents. The little girl had hit her head and she dies. The other girl tries to shut it out instead of blaming herself. This is where the song starts. " Playrground school bell rings again. Rainclouds come to play, again. Has no one told you she's not breathing?" She's at school, still, and rainclouds are there. Literally in that it still rains like normal, and also representing peoples sadness. People try to tell her the girl is dead as she tries not to listen. "Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to..." She's in shock, instead of facing the real world her mind becomes someone else she can talk to. "If I smile and don't believe, Soon I know I'll wake from this dream/Don't try to fix me I'm not broken" She smiles like normal and pretends its just a dream, she doesn't believe any of it. People should stop asking her if she's ok. She's perfectly fine, because nothing happened.

"Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide...don't cry..." She starts to realize she's lying to herself, and her mind becomes the lie, telling her to let it continue, and not to cry or even think about it. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping. Hello...I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday..." She has to realize what happened, and knows she's not dreaming, its real. But that voice is still there in her head, someone to talk to, some fragment of yesterday.