[Verse 1] Revolutionary Guard calling in another report, one tanker clipped a mine, one caught fire, the third's a tugboat caught in the sort, burned up helping, that's the claim on the wire, no names on the hulls, no flags, nobody's dialing the fire. No casualties listed, no owner steps forward to speak, and nobody outside Tehran has confirmed this thing all week. [Chorus] Say it soft, say it slow, it's unverified still, third time this week they're singing the same spill — three tankers on the thirtieth, four more yesterday too, count the claims, not the proof, that's the work we gotta do. [Verse 2] They never said why that second ship lit — no cause in the statement, just smoke and a hit. Came one day after the strike out on Qeshm, Trump waved it off, called it minor, pressed send. Meanwhile in Doha the Qataris still mediate, an Iranian official says the two sides ain't close, they're miles from the trade — Tehran wants the sanctions lifted, the blockade undone, frozen funds back first before any deal gets won. [Chorus] Say it soft, say it slow, it's unverified still, third time this week they're singing the same spill — three tankers on the thirtieth, four more yesterday too, count the claims, not the proof, that's the work we gotta do. [Verse 3] Clock's running — thirty-six hours from that Reuters line, Washington, Tehran, waiting to feed back their side. Axios says the Pentagon's quietly stacking the shelf, prepping for combat to pick back up on itself. Maritime Center flags the strait a deep shade of red, calls it severe, says more hits up ahead — "highly likely," that's the phrase that they chose, so we watch for a name, a flag, before the headline froze. [Verse 4] Insurers in London are quietly raising the rate, war-risk premiums climbing before the ships hit the strait. Satellite trackers show tankers slowing their pace, captains killing the transponders, going dark just in case. Shipping lanes narrow where the mines may still float, every captain's a gambler betting the hull of his boat. Analysts argue if this is posture or war, but nobody's landed a camera on what happened offshore. State media loops the same grainy clip of the smoke, while Western desks caveat every single word that they spoke. [Bridge] No ship named, no port confirmed, just smoke on the radio, lessons half-learned — the Guard keeps talking, the tankers stay still, truth's somewhere out past the Qeshm windowsill. [Chorus] Say it soft, say it slow, it's unverified still, third time this week they're singing the same spill — three tankers on the thirtieth, four more yesterday too, count the claims, not the proof, that's the work we gotta do. [Outro] Fifth of November, Hormuz holding its breath, watch for the proof before you call it the rest. Count the hulls, count the smoke, count the silence that stays, history's written in the gap between the claims.
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