Hello Cruel World Lyrics

Lyric discussion by leemod 

Cover art for Hello Cruel World lyrics by Bad Religion

This one is a little tricky, at first it sounds like a love song where his girl is his world... but, I'll throw a twist on it, see if it sticks?

Hello World!

Is the first line coded by pretty much anyone, ever. It's dumb, but there it is. Hello Cruel World would be a play on that in such that the melodramatic (and cliche) suicide note is "goodbye cruel world" so I propose it could be a mix of them both! So, the more he codes, the harder it becomes until he realizes his world is saturated in dense, impenetrable code! His world is cruel, and he's just begun!

Or it's about drugs.

My Interpretation