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Juice WRLD

Empty

Release date: 8th March 2019

From Death Race for Love
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About This Track

'Empty' opens Death Race for Love, Juice WRLD's second studio album, released in March 2019. Produced by Nick Mira, the track sets the record's tone with a portrait of internal collapse framed in spatial terms. The chorus maps emotional withdrawal as literal flight, the narrator describing a retreat into darkness he does not expect to reverse. The black hole he names stands in for absence where coherence used to be.

The verses catalogue methods of numbing rather than resolving distress, pills and substance use presented as problem-solving tools that only deepen the void. Juice WRLD moves between acknowledgement of crisis and a kind of defiant survival instinct, the second verse pulling back from the brink with a declaration that the only suicide here is in the car doors. The production stays minimal, leaving space for the lyric's plainness to land without decoration.

The song's placement as the album's first track signals its thematic weight, the emptiness of the title carrying through the rest of Death Race for Love's eighteen songs. It is a statement of condition rather than catharsis, the narrator aware of his predicament but uncertain of the route out.

"Empty" is a track by Juice WRLD, from the album Death Race for Love, released 8th March 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

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Juice WRLD

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Lyrics

Empty

[Chorus]

From the unknown

I ran away, I don't think I'm coming back home

Woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah

Like a crawlspace, it's a dark place I roam

Ain't no right way, just the wrong way I know

I problem-solve with Styrofoam

My world revolves around a black hole

The same black hole that's in place of my soul, uh

Empty, I feel so goddamn empty

I may go rogue

Don't tempt me, big bullet holes

Tote semi-autos

[Verse 1]

Huh, yeah

I'm keepin' it real, real

I'm keepin' it real, uh, yeah

Life gets tough, shit is getting real (Yeah)

I don't know how to feel

Swallowing all these pills

Numb my real feels, uh

Devil standing here

Tryna' make a deal, uh

It ain't no deals

Feel like I'm going crazy, but still took a lot to get me here

Losing my sanity up in a house in the hills, hills, hills

I ain't have vanity then and I still don't have vanity still, still, still, uh

Bein' me, I rock, PnB

These hoes actin' like gossip, TMZ

These drugs acting like mosh pits squishing me

Oh my, oh me, how they kill me slowly

Lonely, I been gettin' no peace

OD, feel like overdosing

Lowkey I been looking for the signs

But all I can find is a sign of the times

[Chorus]

From the unknown

I ran away, I don't think I'm coming back home

Woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah

Like a crawlspace, it's a dark place I roam

Ain't no right way, just the wrong way I know

I problem-solve with Styrofoam

My world revolves around a black hole

The same black hole that's in place of my soul, uh

Empty, I feel so goddamn empty

I may go rogue

Don't tempt me, big bullet holes

Tote semi-autos

[Verse 2]

I ain't suicidal

Only thing suicide is suicide doors

Fight for survival

Gotta keep hope up, rolling good dope up (Uh)

Hold my hand, through hell we go

Don't look back, it ain't the past no more

Gonna get to the racks, all them niggas want war

Yeah, I was put here to lead the lost souls

Exhale depression as the wind blows

These are the laws of livin' in vogue

We're perfectly imperfect children

Rose from the dust, all of us are on a mission

Never gave a fuck, really came from rags to riches

Now we live it up, driving with the rooftop missin'

I don't give a fuck, really came from rags to riches

Now I live it up, driving with the rooftop missin'

[Chorus]

From the unknown

I ran away, I don't think I'm coming back home

Woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah

Like a crawlspace, it's a dark place I roam

Ain't no right way, just the wrong way I know

I problem-solve with Styrofoam

My world revolves around a black hole

The same black hole that's in place of my soul, uh

Empty, I feel so goddamn empty

I may go rogue

Don't tempt me, big bullet holes

Tote semi-autos

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Track details

From Death Race for Love

2019
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Album
Death Race for Love
Death Race for Love
Juice WRLD
Release year
2019
  1. —Rider
  2. —ON GOD
  3. —Desire
  4. —Won't Let Go
  5. —Fast
  6. —Out My Way
  7. —Big
  8. —She's the One
  9. —Syphilis
  10. —HeMotions
  11. —Feeling
  12. —Empty
  13. —10 Feet
  14. —Flaws and Sins
  15. —Hear Me Calling
  16. —Make Believe
  17. —Who Shot Cupid?
  18. —Maze
  19. —Ring Ring
  20. —The Bees Knees
  21. —Demonz (Interlude)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Juice WRLD, Nick Mira, Taz Taylor
Producer
Nick Mira
Mastering Engineer
Colin Leonard
Mixing Engineer
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Recording Engineer
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