It’s a pretty bummer song. I guess it’s kind of about the opioid epidemic. I’ve had quite a few friends pass away, in particular, one friend when I was 18 passed away from complications related to opioid addiction. Artists keep dying and stuff so I wrote this song on the night Lil Peep died because I just got super triggered. Lil Peep and Juice WRLD were both artists I really liked. The artists its happening to specifically feels… a little too on the nose. I think [they were] people who in my opinion were best expressing issues of mental health. So to have them die specifically just feels like a weird hopelessness.

I think I was like deleting files on my computer. It was like, “Delete forever?” And I was like, “I guess so,” like fuck. But the song is actually quite dark. I’ve had six friends who’ve died from opiate related deaths, really good friends. So it’s dealing with the aftermath emotionally of that. It’s literally like the black plague. It’s this scourge in our society that is killing people. It’s this thing that impacts my life every single day because I’m constantly thinking about it and it’s taken so much from me and it’s weird. It’s just a constant thing in the back of my mind. There’s just this demon out in society and it’s super scary and it’s super fucked up.

I actually finished this the day Lil' Peep died. I got super triggered when Lil' Peep died. I really liked him as an artist. I thought he was a great artist, actually. I was just a big fan. So I went into my weird office and made the song. Because now there’s a lot of musicians and stuff dying. But before I was like, “Am I crazy? How is this? Do I just hang out with bad people?” So that kind of entering the public discourse more and the mainstream press more, has just been very intense for me. Because you’re just constantly reminded of the state of affairs.