[Verse 1] Jared Kushner's phone got cracked like an egg, seven hundred million dollars wired, line after line, not a leg to stand on when the ledger's leaking bright, a paper trail longer than a desert night Vanity Fair counting zeros in the sand, money moving quiet like a sleight of hand [Verse 2] Cairo's whispering a brand new deal, offering muscle, offering steel, "we'll guard your kingdom" — Egypt to Riyadh's ear, a contretemps, that's a prickly little spat, now softened into something clear Old rivals leaning into a fresh embrace, redrawing who protects whose place [Chorus] Oil's climbing, six-month high, one-sixteen a barrel, traders eye the sky Brent is surging, risk's the reason, Gulf on edge in escalation season Oil's climbing, watch it soar, every headline pricing in what might come before [Verse 3] "Escalation's coming" — Middle East Eye says so, Israel and Washington eyeing another blow at Iran, the air feels thin and tight, nobody's sleeping easy through the night Europe's foreign ministers raise a hand, "talk it out," they say, "don't let the fuses expand" Diplomacy over dynamite, that's the ask, but Brent keeps climbing like it's doing the math [Verse 4] Washington's moving people, quiet as a held breath, diplomats and families shuffled before the next tremor hits the region, nobody says panic, just suitcases packed like it's almost automatic Al Jazeera, Rigzone, Yahoo Finance too, all the tickers flashing one-sixteen, red and blue [Verse 5] Riyadh's counting tankers, Tehran counts the days, a chessboard built on sand dunes and a hundred different plays Shipping lanes get tighter, insurance rates climb high, every captain checking twice before they say goodbye Markets hate the silence more than they hate the noise, so they're pricing fear in barrels, pricing fear in poise Analysts on cable news, talking heads in rows, nobody knows the ending, but everybody knows the pattern — oil and anger, dollars and a spark, history keeps repeating lessons learned here in the dark [Chorus] Oil's climbing, six-month high, one-sixteen a barrel, traders eye the sky Brent is surging, risk's the reason, Gulf on edge in escalation season Oil's climbing, watch it soar, every headline pricing in what might come before [Bridge] Kushner's cash, Cairo's pledge, Tehran's dread, one map, one region, too much read Diplomats shuffling, barrels rising fast, today's the headline, nobody knows what's last [Chorus] Oil's climbing, six-month high, one-sixteen a barrel, traders eye the sky Brent is surging, risk's the reason, Gulf on edge in escalation season Oil's climbing, watch it soar, every headline pricing in what might come before [Outro] Gulf News, October twenty-fourth, that's the frame, same desert, higher stakes, nothing stays the same Tomorrow's another dateline, another price to chase, the oldest story in the world, dressed in a brand new face
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