One Hour Away

Lyrics

[Intro]

(instrumental — low synth pulse, distant air-raid siren sample, heartbeat kick)

[Verse 1]

The clock is ticking, he wrote it in the night

For Iran there won't be anything left

Ships loaded to the brim, waiting for the light

Nine hundred strikes still ringing in their breath

Eighty-one days deep, the bodies in the sand

Three thousand souls beneath a blackened sky

He made the call with no one else's hand

An hour away from watching missiles fly

[Pre-Chorus]

Three kings called on the line

Said give us two more days, we'll make it right

But the boats were loaded, the order was signed

[Chorus]

One hour away from the fire

One phone call from the end

One hour away from the wire

And nobody knows what happens then

One hour away, one hour away

The whole world hanging by a thread

[Verse 2]

He stood beside the blueprints of a ballroom

Talking war between the marble and the gold

Ships were all set, it would be happening soon

Whether popular or not, that's what I'm told

Sixty-five percent say bring the soldiers home

But he's too busy getting it done

Iran says fear made him pick up the phone

Israel says it's not if — it's when

[Pre-Chorus]

Locked and loaded, Option B

Vance says we're in a pretty good spot

But the strait is closed and the oil runs free

And a billion barrels left to rot

[Chorus]

One hour away from the fire

One phone call from the end

One hour away from the wire

And nobody knows what happens then

One hour away, one hour away

The whole world hanging by a thread

[Bridge]

In Beijing they roll out the red

Xi walks with Putin, calm among the dead

Hegemonic currents running wild

While a bride sits on a tank and a war-torn child

Looks up at smoke where bridges used to stand

Karaj fell like everything we planned

Two or three days — maybe Friday, maybe never

This is a little bit different, he severed

[Chorus]

One hour away from the fire

One phone call from the end

One hour away from the wire

And nobody knows what happens then

One hour away, one hour away

The whole world hanging by a thread

[Outro]

The clock is ticking... time is of the essence...

(instrumental fade — heartbeat slows, siren fades, silence)