I mean, it's a 2:30am translation of a Hebrew original. In Hebrew we pronounce it meerk, and the word for counterattack ends in -zeer, so the line ends -zeerk w

I mean, it's a 2:30am translation of a Hebrew original. In Hebrew we pronounce it meerk, and the word for counterattack ends in -zeer, so the line ends -zeerk which rhymes well with meerk.