Verse 1 They called it chaos, I called their bluff, Smoke as a curtain — it's never enough, I saw the handshake hidden in the blast, Old enemies moving too fast for the past. Pre-Chorus Beijing signed it quiet, nobody screamed, Power in the static, redrawing the seam, The war was a mask and I'm done playing nice — Sixty days counting till they roll the dice. Chorus Watch the chokepoints! Watch the narrow tide! Watch the throne being built where the tankers hide, Hormuz used to be just water and stone, Now it's a toll booth on the throat of the world I used to own! Verse 2 I'm not paranoid, I just pay attention, Every "ceasefire's" a quiet intervention, You can gaslight the headlines, dress it up as peace, I see the architecture underneath the lease. Chorus Watch the chokepoints! Watch the narrow tide! Watch the throne being built where the tankers hide, Hormuz used to be just water and stone, Now it's a toll booth on the throat of the world I used to own! Bridge Sixty days of silence... then the gate comes down... You can call it fate — I call it checkmate, dressed up in a crown... And the water remembers every empire it's drowned... Final Chorus Watch the chokepoints! Watch the narrow seas! Watch where the tankers ask permission, please! Hormuz isn't water anymore — it's a throne, And when the tolls come down — the old world's gone, the old world's gone! Outro Watch the chokepoints... Watch the chokepoints... That's where it begins.
