Juice Wrld Come and Go is a tragic reminder of the effects personal insecurities can have. Juice had a tragic accidental overdose in December 2019. He was only twenty one, but he had already had his fair share of addictions and along with evil girls, and love, it’s one of his constant themes. If we take a look back to Lucid Dreams––the song that rose him to prominence––it’s all about a girl that played with his emotions and left. He feels so beaten from this experience he turns to Xanax, a legal, yet highly addictive anti-anxiety medicine to make him feel better. It doesn’t. At some point he even thought he was better off dead “You were my everything/ Thoughts of a wedding ring/ Now I'm just better off dead (Uh, uh, uh).” I’ve been in his situation before. When I was young and stupid my first real girlfriend broke up with me and for months I would get black out drunk. I couldn’t sleep, so I drank to feel peace, and rest.
This is where Come and Go differs. The song is not about an evil woman anymore, it’s about the right one. He thanks god and accepts all the pain he previously felt as obstacles that he needed to surpass in order to grow “I'm thankin' God that he made you part of the plan/I guess I ain't go through all that Hell for nothin'.” However Come and Go is not a happy song. Wrld is still taking pills, not only that, but he is insecure about himself because of what happened in his past “You tell me ain’t nobody better than me/I think that there's better than me.” If Lucid Dreams was about the mistakes you make after a break up, then Come and Go is about the difficulty of accepting yourself after all those mistakes. This is why the two songs are intertwined. One song reflects a troubled history, while the other shows growth, and doubt. Without Lucid Dreams there will be no Come and Go.
We have all felt in some way or another undeserving. Whether it be of love, or a better life, but you shouldn’t. Wrld shows us that struggle, even if it’s painful, leads to growth. I hope the album ends with Wrld accepting he was worthy of love all along, because he was, as are you.
Juice Wrld Come and Go is a tragic reminder of the effects personal insecurities can have. Juice had a tragic accidental overdose in December 2019. He was only twenty one, but he had already had his fair share of addictions and along with evil girls, and love, it’s one of his constant themes. If we take a look back to Lucid Dreams––the song that rose him to prominence––it’s all about a girl that played with his emotions and left. He feels so beaten from this experience he turns to Xanax, a legal, yet highly addictive anti-anxiety medicine to make him feel better. It doesn’t. At some point he even thought he was better off dead “You were my everything/ Thoughts of a wedding ring/ Now I'm just better off dead (Uh, uh, uh).” I’ve been in his situation before. When I was young and stupid my first real girlfriend broke up with me and for months I would get black out drunk. I couldn’t sleep, so I drank to feel peace, and rest.
This is where Come and Go differs. The song is not about an evil woman anymore, it’s about the right one. He thanks god and accepts all the pain he previously felt as obstacles that he needed to surpass in order to grow “I'm thankin' God that he made you part of the plan/I guess I ain't go through all that Hell for nothin'.” However Come and Go is not a happy song. Wrld is still taking pills, not only that, but he is insecure about himself because of what happened in his past “You tell me ain’t nobody better than me/I think that there's better than me.” If Lucid Dreams was about the mistakes you make after a break up, then Come and Go is about the difficulty of accepting yourself after all those mistakes. This is why the two songs are intertwined. One song reflects a troubled history, while the other shows growth, and doubt. Without Lucid Dreams there will be no Come and Go.
We have all felt in some way or another undeserving. Whether it be of love, or a better life, but you shouldn’t. Wrld shows us that struggle, even if it’s painful, leads to growth. I hope the album ends with Wrld accepting he was worthy of love all along, because he was, as are you.