Strait of Silence

Verse 1

Mojtaba Khamenei takes the chair,

A new voice speaks through Tehran's air,

His first decree upon the wire—

The Strait of Hormuz stays closed by fire.

March the twelfth, the world takes note,

New fronts threatened if the war stays afloat,

Conditions set, three lines are drawn,

A warning sent before the dawn.

Chorus

And the waters still, and the oil won't flow,

Through the narrow strait where the tankers go,

Every headline reads like a rolling tide,

And the world just watches from the other side.

Verse 2

Down in Iraq, the port goes dark,

A deadly strike has hit its mark,

Oil tankers burning, operations cease,

The Persian Gulf finds no release.

Bases scattered on foreign ground,

Shut them down or more attacks will sound,

The supreme leader's words are clear and cold—

A story the ancient waters hold.

Chorus

And the waters still, and the oil won't flow,

Through the narrow strait where the tankers go,

Every headline reads like a rolling tide,

And the world just watches from the other side.

Verse 3

North in Lebanon, the tension climbs,

Israel threatens territory lines,

If Hezbollah won't halt the fight,

They'll push the border left and right.

From Tehran to the Levant shore,

Each new front opens up one more,

The US and Israel won't stand down,

And smoke is rising over every town.

Bridge

Somewhere a mother holds her child,

Praying the morning will be mild,

But the statements come, the warnings grow,

And nobody knows how far they'll go.

Mojtaba speaks where his father stood,

Would diplomacy do any good?

Chorus

And the waters still, and the oil won't flow,

Through the narrow strait where the tankers go,

Every headline reads like a rolling tide,

And the world just watches from the other side.

Inspired by real events. Names, details, and narrative may be fictionalized.