About this song
Chandra's worst memory is the day the Consulate killed her father. Jace's "perfect" universe erased it: in the Echoverse he lived, raised her on frost instead of fire, and she grew up cold, obedient and still furious. So when the double finally meets the Chandra who lost him, she opens with three words. Dad says hi.
Lyrics
[Verse 1] I don't do hellos. I heard you calling anyway. I take the stairs where gravity runs the wrong way round. I teach the girl he made to ask me how and why, and I answer every time, and I never raise my voice. [Verse 2] There's a Consulate crest on the brace around my arm. My father lived. He taught me frost the way you'd teach a trade. I got the quiet life. I got the whole of him. So why am I still this angry when there's nothing left to burn? [Pre-Chorus] Ice on the window, ferns across the glass. You turn around, and it's your face. [Chorus] Dad says hi. He lived, he's well, he raised me right. Dad says hi. You can't beat him, so don't try. Go where all the other pieces go, somewhere quiet, somewhere cold. Dad says hi. [Verse 3] You jumped out of the window and I froze you where you fell. When he opened up the rings, I dragged you through with me. I froze the floor around the dead man and the witch who wept on him, then the world got thin, and your lion's axe went straight through me. [Pre-Chorus] Ice on the window, ferns across the glass. You turn around, and it's your face. [Chorus] Dad says hi. He lived, he's well, he raised me right. Dad says hi. You can't beat him, so don't try. Go where all the other pieces go, somewhere quiet, somewhere cold. Dad says hi. [Bridge] It's me if Dad didn't die. That's what you said, and you were right. I got the life you wanted, and I'm still this angry. Tell me why. [Chorus] Dad says hi. He lived, he's well, he raised me right. Dad says hi. You can't beat him, so don't try. Go where all the other pieces go, somewhere quiet, somewhere cold. Dad says hi. [Outro] Dad says hi. Dad says hi.
