[Verse 1] Financial Times says he's done waiting, done asking twice, CBC says frustration's boiling, patience turned to ice, Trump wanted quiet, wanted the guns resting on the shelf, But Zelenskyy says the silence was costing Ukraine itself, So the drones go east again, past the border, past the line, Not at cities, not at people — refineries, that's the design, Cut the fuel, cut the tanks' thirst, slow the war machine's pace, It's strategy wrapped in smoke, not chaos, not disgrace. [Chorus] Refineries burning orange where the pipelines used to hum, Truce is a word they buried, watch the conflagration come — that's a word for fire spreading wide, consuming all it meets, Zelenskyy says "we're done" waiting quiet in the streets. [Verse 2] BBC and Al Jazeera, both confirming the same scene, Russia says an oil site's hit, the flames the cameras have seen, Moscow's pointing fingers, calling foul on the attack, But Kyiv says the ceasefire's broken, and they're not holding back, NBC's got the quote lit up: "we're done," plain and clear, Anger at a stalled-out ally, frustration you can hear, AP says Zelenskyy feels betrayed, left out in the cold, When the promised leverage from Washington never quite unfolds. [Verse 3] The Atlantic's watching closer — says Ukraine's found new ground, Not just trenches, not just front lines, but the fuel tanks underground, Hit the refineries, starve the engines, that's the updated plan, Turn the economic pressure into a battlefield of its own span. Russia Matters drops the report card, October fourteenth read, Tallying losses, tallying gains, where the stalemate's led, No parley scheduled, no truce holding, intransigence on both sides — that means neither one will bend, neither compromise, neither glides. [Verse 4] Reuters counts the barrels lost, the markets feel the shock, Europe watches nervous, gas prices start to rock, While diplomats in Brussels draft another empty plea, Zelenskyy answers back with fire, not with diplomacy, The Kremlin calls it terror, the West calls it a stand, Every headline splits the story, spins it second-hand, But the flames don't care for framing, don't care who's to blame, They just keep on climbing higher, calling out the same. [Bridge] Trump wants quiet, Kyiv wants answers, somewhere in between, Smoke above a Russian skyline is the clearest sign we've seen, Not resolution, just a signal: the patience finally cracked, History's taking notes tonight on every fact. [Chorus] Refineries burning orange where the pipelines used to hum, Truce is a word they buried, watch the conflagration come, Zelenskyy says "we're done" waiting, anger lighting up the dark, October sixteenth, twenty twenty-six — remember the spark. [Outro] Refineries, report cards, a president who won't fold, That's the Ukraine story tonight — calm voice, truth retold.
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