Kid Cudi – These Worries Lyrics

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 doesnt given 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 cannot 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.