Wishing Well

Album: Legends Never Die (2020)
Charted: 15 5
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Songfacts®:

  • Juice WRLD regularly talked in his music about his struggles to cope with substance abuse ("RUN," "Bandit") and depression ("Empty," "Righteous"). Here, Juice raps about how he started taking drugs to ease his emotional pain, but now it's morphed into an addiction that is killing him. He wishes he could just throw all his hurt into a wishing well and make it disappear; sadly such wishes only happen in fairy tales.
  • During the chorus, Juice talks about using Percocet to relieve his stress. A side effect of the painkiller is an opioid-induced chronic itching.

    I still try even though I know I'm gon' fail
    Stress on my shoulders like an anvil
    Perky got me itching like an anthill


    It was Juice's addiction to Percocet that led to his death on December 8, 2019. The rapper suffered cardiac arrest after swallowing multiple Percocet pills in Chicago's Midway Airport.
  • Juice wrote "Wishing Well" in collaboration with the track's producers, ChopsquadDJ (Trippie Redd's "Topanga") and Dr. Luke (Doja Cat's "Say So").

Comments: 8

  • Osama Bin Laden from Orlando FloridaWhaaaaattt juicy man me love u I go to destroy another tower now
  • Nabil from Dar Es SalaamI lov u juice wrld
  • Zach from BloomingtonI like the vid
  • Naomi from LekkiNaomi from lekki,i love u juice wrld,they say u are dead but me nd my friends don't want to believe
  • Dym Jabson from Nigeria,benue StateI love juice wrld and all his songs so much and his songs are so touching to me i pray may his soul rest in peace were he is. He will always be remembered through his. Like said legend never dies.
  • Quin Jane from LekkiI love u juice wrld .
    I will forever miss u
  • Obama Bin Laden from North Korean BunkerJuice ain't dead he just chilling wit me in da bunker
  • Cameron S. from Spanaway, WaAnother Fact About This Song Is That It Samples T-Pain’s “I’m In Luv With a Stripper” From ‘07
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