Hello

'Hello' is the ninth track on Evanescence's debut album Fallen. Amy Lee wrote it about the death of her sister when Lee was six years old. The song is among the most personal work on the record, built from the perspective of someone trying to comfort another through grief, offering themselves as a presence in the dark. The lyrics move between playground imagery and direct address, Lee's voice cutting through arrangements of piano and strings. She positions herself as a kind of ghost or echo, something left behind after loss, singing "I'm still here / All that's left of yesterday". The song refuses easy resolution; there is no fixing, no waking from the dream, only the fact of remaining.