Juice Wrld’s first posthumous single, “Righteous,” was released on Friday (April 24) at midnight EST. But eerily, the lyrics to the song paint a painful portrait of a young man struggling with drug addiction, which ultimately took his life.

As the chorus goes, “Five or six pills in my right hand, yeah. Codeine runneth over on my nightstand/Takin’ medicine to fix all of the damage/My anxiety the size of a planet (Yeah, ooh)/Holes in my skull, over time/My heart’s over ice (Woah).”

In the first verse, Juice raps about being high and describes how dark it’s making him feel, indicating there’s a lot going on beneath the surface.

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“Over ice, I’m freezing,” he begins. “Beautiful eyes, deceiving/We may die this evening/Coughing, wheezing, bleeding/High, I’m an anxious soul/Blood moons are my eyes, stay low/Red and black, they glow/Under attack, in my soul/When it’s my time, I’ll know/Never seen a hell so cold/Yeah, we’ll make it out, I’ll know/We’ll run right through the flames, let’s go.”

The second verse is even more ominous as Juice appears to be throwing out the S.O.S. signal.

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“I’m in too deep,” he raps. “Can’t swim like me/We’re drowning, so I will see/My demons ten feet, under me/Inhale, exhale, but I can’t breathe/Too busy drinking codeine doin’ high speeds/Crash, pour a four, sip it slow, make the time pass/Take a pill for the thrill, have a relapse/Devil in my head tryna run gym laps/I ain’t tryna race, he don’t even know me like that.”

As Juice’s mother Carmella Wallace noted while announcing the Live Free 999 Fund, Juice knew he was in trouble.

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“I was aware of his struggles with addiction, anxiety, and depression; we had many conversations about his challenges with these issues,” she said in a press release. “I know he truly wanted to be free from the demons that tormented him. I made the decision upon his death that I was going to share his struggles with the world with the objective of helping others.”

Juice Wrld’s Cause Of Death Revealed

Juice Wrld died last December after suffering a drug-induced seizure at Chicago Midway International Airport. His official cause of death was ruled an accidental overdose from oxycodone and codeine. He was 21.