“Won’t End Well” (a Ukrainian folk song)
There was just something about the way they hurt me — it let me know:
This won’t end well.
You and me, we finally agree I’m not lying this time when I say,
“Last night, I just got carried away.”
The only thing I ever took from them
was the knowledge of how much pain
we were born to take.
You better run! You better hide!
Hide your secrets in some deep, dark place.
They are coming! They are coming!
They are searching everywhere.
There are secret spaces deep inside of me
well within their reach.
In the end, I wanted to live — I admit
I begged them: “Let me off the hook!”
and they did.
But when they come back, and they always come back, you better fight.
This won’t end well.
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