[To the loved ones in L’viv, Ternopil, Kyiv, Irpin, Mykolaiv, Ochakiv, Odesa, Transkarpati, and all across Ukraine] Where you gonna be when the world ends? Are you gonna come with me? I’ll take you where the grass grows green On the banks of the salt salt sea Where will you be when the road comes to its end Tanks down every street Will you ride against the armies of darkness Or will you stomach bitter defeat Even if our hands are tied On the hill on which our fathers died This darkness we will face Legacy they cant deface or erase Soldaty cry to hold the line Men of action it’s not the time To fall victim to their plans Hoist your sword with weary hands and ascend Could you believe the role peace plays in our plans? For how can there be peace A millenium— one side against the other Weened on hate— nothing tastes sweet What then of the children Generational repeat A maternity ward cast six feet asunder No flowers grow when buried down so deep Such bitter tastes not of this world From such sullen ground no colours unfurl Dark shadows ‘cross the land Force war from peaceful hands For we’re the ones who must turn the soil Though salt sea rise and the rivers boil We must fight another day Til peace can find a way Don’t weaponise your hate It burns all in its wake Don’t play into their plan They want you to burn with hate just like them For we are all but human in the end And death waits ‘round the bend So plant these seeds of peace in the rubble And when we’re all gone a good legacy — ascends.

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night? In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine I'll shiver the whole night through So my girl, black girl, where will you go? I'm goin where the cold winds blow Way out - in the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine and I'll shiver the whole night through (g'on'n shiver for me now) Your husband, yeah he was a hard workin man And he lived about a mile from here His head was found in a driver's wheel And his body has never been found So my girl, my girl, where will you go? I'm goin where them cold winds blow Way out - in the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine And I'll shiver the whole night through My girl, black girl, don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night? In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine I'll shiver the whole night through And I'll shiver, and go on shiverin the whole night through

Father/Mother/Sister/Brother Adieu, I feel sorry for you My heart is full of trouble now what can I do If I'll never see you anymore 'til that last trumpet shall sound Prepare to meet in heaven where parting is no more

It happened the winter, I hunkered in Maine When a modern-day Hitler invaded Ukraine His people believed every word of his lies What an awful strange world we humans devised So long it’s been good to know yuh So long it’s been good to know yuh So long it’s been good to know yuh It’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won Then we’ll get back together again The shelling began in the dark before dawn The whole world was speechless after peace for so long For Kharkiv and Kherson and Kyiv they come The sirens were wailing as rockets were flung Out of Crimea them tanks would have rolled Save for the bravery in Vitaly’s good soul He climbed down the bridge with the tanks overhead He gave up his life to see every one dead The telephone rang, it jumped off the wall President Biden, a-making his call Zelensky said “thanks but I don’t need a ride… But we’d sure take some NATO boys up in the sky” Lovers they sat in the dark and they sparked They hugged and they kissed in that dusty old dark Then back to the mix of the Molotov piss Instead of marriage they talked like this Spare me the strength to sing of the whole The smoldering wreckage of Mariupol They couldn’t be bothered to aim a bit wide Of even a theater with children inside The whole world can see that Putin’s a fool He fuckered around and found out the rule They’re not going back to their Soviet chains No, they’ll fight to the death for a sovereign Ukraine Slava, Slava Ukraini Slava, Slava Ukraini Slava, Slava Ukraini… There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won Then we’ll get back together again