[Verse 1]
Mark Carney flew to Riyadh with a handshake and a plan
Trade and critical minerals, technology on demand
Education partnerships, defence deals in the ink
Canada and Saudi Arabia — closer than you think
They signed across the table, AI written in the terms
Qatar, Turkey, Egypt watching every page that turns
[Chorus]
The Gulf is realigning, new alliances are drawn
Saudi leading conversations, building something strong
Canada says Türkiye and Riyadh hold the keys
To solving what's unraveling across the Middle East
The maps are being redrawn on July eleven
Gulf News, twenty-twenty-six, straight from the region
[Verse 2]
Saudi's Red Sea project — they're calling it a dream
The Maldives of the Middle East, a coastal luxury scheme
Meanwhile IMEC the trade corridor gets a second look
Syria emerging as a new route in the book
Israel's been sidelined from that calculation now
Saudi reassessing every road and every vow
[Chorus]
The Gulf is realigning, new alliances are drawn
Saudi leading conversations, building something strong
Canada says Türkiye and Riyadh hold the keys
To solving what's unraveling across the Middle East
The maps are being redrawn on July eleven
Gulf News, twenty-twenty-six, straight from the region
[Bridge]
But not every neighbor's in the circle being formed
The UAE sits separate from this Saudi-Qatar storm
A new axis taking shape with Pakistan in the fold
Foreign Policy is watching how this story will unfold
And in the Persian Gulf, American and Iranian guns
Are trading shots across the water — tension's never done
[Verse 3]
Kuwait and Bahrain struck by Iran's accelerating hand
Saudi and the Arab world condemned it, took a stand
Arab News reporting nations lining up to speak
Against the escalating fire burning through the week
The Gulf in transformation, every headline reads the same
Diplomacy and danger playing out their overlapping game
[Verse 4]
The energy transition hasn't stopped the crude from flowing
Saudi Aramco watching global markets, always knowing
Hydrogen and solar bids are landing on the desk
Vision twenty-thirty pushing every boundary and test
Crown Prince Mohammed standing where the old world meets the new
Betting on a future built on more than revenue
[Chorus]
The Gulf is realigning, new alliances are drawn
Saudi leading conversations, building something strong
Canada says Türkiye and Riyadh hold the keys
To solving what's unraveling across the Middle East
The maps are being redrawn on July eleven
Gulf News, twenty-twenty-six, straight from the region
[Outro]
Gulf News, July eleventh — write it down, remember well
New alliances, new corridors, new stories left to tell
Canada in Riyadh, Saudi leading from the front
Twenty-twenty-six, the Middle East is blunt