[Verse 1] Explosions rattle the capital's glass towers tonight, Sirens stitching panic into the floodlit sky. The conflict's creeping closer, no longer far away, Houthi missiles testing how much a kingdom pays. Arab News is counting stakes rising with the smoke, Every strike's a gamble the militia just spoke. [Chorus] Gulf News, Gulf News, October's burning page, Two airports wounded, the region shifts its stage. From bystander to border wall, the story's turning fast, Saudi Arabia standing where the old lines didn't last. Gulf News, Gulf News, the headlines keep on climbing, Hear the darbuka beat like the clock is always timing. [Verse 2] A pilot never landing, one of three who died, CBC reporting flames at the runway's side. The main hub of the capital, grounded, scorched, and loud, Algemeiner calls it a shield pulled from the cloud — No longer watching sidelines, now the perimeter's own, Security's new weight on a kingdom's throne. [Chorus] Gulf News, Gulf News, October's burning page, Two airports wounded, the region shifts its stage. From bystander to border wall, the story's turning fast, Saudi Arabia standing where the old lines didn't last. Gulf News, Gulf News, the headlines keep on climbing, Hear the darbuka beat like the clock is always timing. [Verse 3] Reuters says the EU widens its airspace warning wide, Pilots rerouting, caution riding every side. The Embassy's alert from October eighth still stands, Update one, stay sheltered, watch the shifting sands. Meanwhile Saudi and the UAE reach for barrels overseas, Southeast Asian oil reserves, hedging against the breeze. [Bridge] Strings are soaring, tension coiled like a desert hawk, Every ticking headline makes the whole room stop and talk. Two fronts open — one of fire, one of trade and oil, Both demanding the kingdom's patience, both demanding toil. [Verse 4] Analysts whisper of a region redrawing its own map, Diplomats scrambling, closing every gap. Markets flinch at every rumor the wire services send, Crude prices climbing like they have no end. The palace windows catch the dawn in amber and in gray, While generals calculate the cost of yesterday. A nation used to watching now finds itself the scene, Where oil and fire blur the line of what has always been. [Chorus] Gulf News, Gulf News, October's burning page, Two airports wounded, the region shifts its stage. From bystander to border wall, the story's turning fast, Saudi Arabia standing where the old lines didn't last. Gulf News, Gulf News, the headlines keep on climbing, Hear the darbuka beat like the clock is always timing. [Outro] October ten, the wires still humming, the sky still gray — Riyadh counts its cost as the Gulf rewrites today.
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