“Somebody’s Watching Me”: Anxiety, the song lyrics & the sample

Anxiety by Doechii is one of the most viral tunes on TikTok in 2025: let’s discover the complete lyrics, their meaning and the sample.

If you’ve been on TikTok lately, it’s been impossible not to come across Anxiety, the viral song by Doechii. The social platform is undoubtedly the driving force behind the song’s success, yet many elements make this track a little gem of modern times: the lyrics have a particularly fascinating meaning, and the melody is catchy, featuring a sample of a classic you probably remember. “Somebody is watching me.” Let’s find out everything there is to know about the song of the moment.

Doechii, Anxiety: the song lyrics and their meaning

Doechii - Anxiety (Visualizer)

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Anxiety is a song about the difficulties of life and how challenging it is today to endure and accept what we see around us: in the lyrics, Doechii describes both her personal experience as an artist and the way she perceives our society and the world’s problems. What she feels is a constant anxiety that reminds her of all the things that need to be fixed.

The idea of a constant presence watching and touching you, something that “you feel quietly,” is an unsettling image that has resonated with the modern audience. After all, anxiety is one of those emotions that can become particularly persistent, and finding the key to overcoming it can be a real challenge.

Anxiety, keep on tryin’ me
I feel it quietly
Tryin’ to silence me
Anxiety, shake it off of me
Somebody’s watchin’ me
It’s my anxiety

In the first part of the song, Doechii expresses her dissatisfaction: at this moment in her life, she feels unhappy and in need of a change or a distraction. In the lyrics below, she suggests that part of her frustration also comes from being a physically attractive singer in a music industry that heavily relies on physical appeal.

Money on my jugular, natural hustler
Think I need a smuggler up in Russia
You could be my butler, shine my cutla’
Shout out to Oyenda, that’s the guzzler
Okay, next thing, my life is a wet dream
I call it a sex scene, the back is a nice tease
I tried to escape, my life is a X-rate
I’m sorry, a sex tape, you only get one take

Later in the song, the singer goes on to mention well-known events from the society we live in. As we can easily see, the news we read every day is a massive source of anxiety: the media often focus our attention on events meant to keep our worries on high alert, making it harder to achieve a peaceful and happy life. From this perspective, Anxiety by Doechii reflects one of the biggest issues of modern life.

Court order from Florid-er
What’s in that clear blue water?
No limits, no borders
What’s in that new world order?

You’ll find the full lyrics of Anxiety at the end of this article, and we recommend reading them in their entirety and viewing them as a form of contemporary poetry: the meaning of each line doesn’t necessarily have to be clear, but the overall feelings the song conveys are the true message that should come through.

The original sample

The sample that sounds so familiar in Anxiety by Doechii comes from a hit from a few years ago. You’ll recognize it immediately once you start listening: it’s Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye. You can listen to it below.

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) [Official Music Video]

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What not everyone knows is that even in Gotye’s song, the guitar riff is taken from an old classic. The original track is Seville by Luis Bonfá: listen to the first song, and you’ll notice a striking difference.

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Anxiety, the complete lyrics

Anxiety, keep on tryin’ me
I feel it quietly
Tryin’ to silence me, yeah
My anxiety, can’t shake it off of me
Somebody’s watchin’ me
And my anxiety, yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Solo, no mojo
I bounce back, no pogo
Unhappy, no homo
New brands, no logos
Money on my jugular, natural hustler
Think I need a smuggler up in Russia
You could be my butler, shine my cutla’
Shout out to Oyenda, that’s the guzzler
Okay, next thing, my life is a wet dream
I call it a sex scene, the back is a nice tease
I tried to escape, my life is a X-rate
I’m sorry, a sex tape, you only get one take

Quiet on the set, please
Rolling “Anxiety”
In three, two, one

Anxiety, keep on tryin’ me
I feel it quietly
Tryin’ to silence me, yeah
Anxiety, shake it off of me
Somebody’s watchin’ me
It’s my anxiety, yeah (Brrah)

Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel it tryin’ (Oh)
Keep it tryin’, keep it tryin’
Oh, I feel the silence (Oh)
Keep it quiet, keep it tired, oh, somebody’s touchin’ me (Ooh, la-da, woah)
Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel anxiet— (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
My anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel it tryin’ (It’s my anxiety, can’t let it conquer me)
Keep it tryin’, keep it tryin’, oh, I feel the silence (It’s my anxiety, gotta shake it off of me)
Keep it quiet, keep it quiet, oh, somebody’s watchin’ me (It’s my anxiety, can’t let it caution me)
Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel anxiety (It’s my anxiety, gotta keep it off of me)
Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel it tryin’
Keep it tryin’, keep it tryin’
Oh, I feel the silence
Keep it quiet, keep it quiet
Oh, somebody’s watching me
Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel anxiety

Court order from Florid-er
What’s in that clear blue water?
No limits, no borders
What’s in that new world order?
Marco (Marco), Polo (Polo)
Negro run from popo (Popo)
That blue light and that rojo (Rojo)

And it’s like
I get this tightness in my chest
Like an elephant is standing on me
And I just let it take over
Anxiety keeps on trying me
Anxiety keeps on trying me, yeah

Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel it tryin’ (Ooh)
Keep it tryin’, keep it tryin’ (Oh)
Oh, I feel the silence
Keep it quiet, keep it quiet
Oh, somebody’s watchin’ me (Oh, it keeps on trying me)
Anxiety, anxiet—, oh, I feel anxiet— (It keeps on trying, t-trying, trying, oh)
My anxiety, it’s my anxiety, can’t shake it off of me (It’s my anxiety)
It’s my anxiety, gotta keep it off of me (Can’t shake it off of me)
It’s my anxiety, can’t shake it off of me (Oh; somebody’s watchin’ me)
It’s my anxiety, gotta keep it off of me (Brrah)

Can’t shake it off of me, shake, shake it off of me
It’s my anxiety, gotta keep it off of me
Can’t shake it off of me, shake, shake it off of me
It’s my anxiety, gotta shake it off of me
Me
Me