These Worries Lyrics

[Verse 1: Kid Cudi]
Yeah, the crazy, the wizard
So much whiskey all in my liver
I really like the punch it delivers
Makes me warm while I high-five sinners
All alone, trying to hide from the shadows
Ain't no use, it seems everywhere, they follow
They know where I be at
Infect my mind, tryna get me


[Chorus: Mary J. Blige & Kid Cudi]
These worries are heavy, they rest on my shoulders
My pride, it won't let me fall victim no more (no more)
These worries are heavy, they rest on my shoulders
My pride, it won't let me fall victim no more
(no more)

[Bridge: Kid Cudi]
Life is like that
Beat me up, and I'll fight right back
Poof, poof, be gone
I see the devil linger on
Yeah, stuck in my hell
Lied to my mom, and I ain't doing so well
Lord, let me in
I feel like He's my only friend
[Verse 2: Kid Cudi]
Yeah, the rager, the menace
Hate me now, then hate me when I'm winning
Work so hard to not go insane
It's a full-time job to not lose my faith
Okay, I've been here before
Alone for the umpteenth time or more

I'm tired of motherfuckers saying that they worried 'bout me
When, in fact, they probably never gave a fuck about me

[Chorus: Mary J. Blige & Kid Cudi]
These worries are heavy, they rest on my shoulders
My pride, it won't let me fall victim no more
These worries are heavy, they rest on my shoulders
My pride, it won't let me fall victim no more


[Bridge: Mary J. Blige]
Yeah, life is like that
Beat me up, and I'm fighting right back
Poof-poof, be gone
I see the devil linger on
Yeah, I wanna win
As long as I can do the work within
Lord, let me in
I feel like You're my only friend

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The music gets crazy at the end of the verses and then dies after the refrain. Then he “snorts the coke” and BOOM the music is going again. Nice parallel for his heavy reliance on coke to function.

The layout of sounds and effects in the song are very interesting. Before the first and second verse, Cudi does a line, turning him into a crazy, wild cuddy who doesn’t give a fuck (paralelling his early use of cocaine), but later into The Rager and menace (his later and destructive use of cocaine that can be paralleled in the music video of Mr. Rager).

The listener does not hear him do a line of coke prior to his third verse. He cannot muster enough “crazy” to effectively bring out “The Wizard” or enough vehemence to summon “The Rager” without cocaine. Both of these alter-egos are Cudi’s tools for coping with his “heavy worries.” Yet, without the cocaine, he cannot conjure up enough energy to access them. Not only can he not finish the song, but without cocaine his “worries” effectively crush him because of their “heaviness”: he cannot cope with his problems the same way anymore. He quits cocaine.

In general, the song compounds his mental and emotional struggles with his changing from a “crazy”, wild, and careless reality into darker and lonelier reality.

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Recorded At
The Broski Room, New York, NY & Germano Studios, New York, NY
Release Date
November 9, 2010
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