Halsey shares health battles via poignant new acoustic single, The End

Halsey has just kicked off her new musical era with a poignant song documenting her recent health battles.

After previously announcing that this first track is “just for us” – meaning her fans, and it is not her upcoming album’s lead single for the masses – the singer-songwriter has today (June 4) unveiled The End, which opens up with the brutally heart-breaking verse, ‘Every couple of years now, a doctor says I’m sick / Pulls out a brand new bag of tricks / And then they lay it on me / And at first, it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain…’

At the same time, Halsey has also posted some accompanying videos on social media documenting things like hospital visits and treatments, with the caption: “Long story short, I’m lucky to be alive. Short story long, I wrote an album. It begins with The End. Out now.”

Understandably, Halsey doesn’t go into detail about everything she’s dealt with, but a press release confirms that with the release of The End, the musician is making donations to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Lupus Research Alliance.

Listen to The End below: