01 · Warpaint Lyrics

One more color

One more line

Watch her waking

One shade at a time

Morning light across my skin

Little lines where years have been

Heavy lids and sleepy eyes

A thousand worlds I keep inside

Violet shadows, electric blue

Flecks of silver shining through

I paint the wings I couldn't grow

And let the colors tell what words don't show

They say I don't need all that paint

That I'm beautiful without a trace

I smile because I've always known

I choose the colors that I show

I wear my warpaint, bold and fearless

Every color burning bright

I wear my flaws beneath the glow

And paint the parts I want to show

I give the world my daylight

But the midnight is my own

Every color, every line

Every shade is mine alone

In my mind my eyes are wide

Like the heroines I keep alive

No perfect waist, no porcelain skin

No need to carve myself to fit

This body's carried all my days

And every curve has earned its place

I wear my warpaint, bold and fearless

Every color burning bright

I wear my flaws beneath the glow

And paint the parts I want to show

I give the world my daylight

But the midnight is my own

Every color, every line

Every shade is mine alone

Some nights I trade my wings for worlds unseen

Barefaced beneath the television screen

No painted wings, no one there to see

Still every bit the woman I want to be

My skin's a canvas, not a cage

Each painted stroke a choice I made

Not for their eyes

Not for their praise

Not for permission

To take up space

Call it attention

Call it excess

I call it freedom

In every shade

I wear my warpaint, bold and fearless

Every color burning bright

I wear my flaws beneath the glow

And paint the parts I want to show

I give the world my daylight

But the midnight is my own

Every color, every line

Every shade is mine alone

Wash the colors

From my skin

Still the wildfire

Burns within