[Intro]
Before the sun had broken,
Before the horses cried,
We painted grief as thunder
And carried fire inside.

[Verse]
Red line across the cheekbone,
Black ash across the brow,
The old men spoke in silence,
The young men made a vow.
No banners flew above us,
No kingdoms marched behind,
Only ghosts beside the saddle
And the anger of our kind.

[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the drum beneath the mesa,
Hear the wind become a blade,
At the edge of morning’s doorway,
Every debt must now be paid.

[Chorus]
War Paint at Dawn, ride through the fire,
Hearts like stone and souls like wire.
We do not fight for gold or crown,
We rise with War Paint at Dawn.

[Verse]
The horses stamped the dry earth,
Their breath was smoke and steam,
The rifles slept in leather,
The arrows held a dream.
Across the valley’s silence,
The first red sunlight came,
And every face around me
Burned like kindling into flame.

[Pre-Chorus]
This is not the song of murder,
This is not a thief’s desire,
This is thunder for the fallen,
This is justice born of fire.

[Chorus]
War Paint at Dawn, ride through the fire,
Hearts like stone and souls like wire.
We do not fight for gold or crown,
We rise with War Paint at Dawn.

[Instrumental]
Galloping drums, wild strings crying,
Desert wind and eagle flying.

[Bridge]
If I fall beneath the sunrise,
Lay me where the free winds run.
Tell the mountains I remembered
Every daughter, every son.

[Breakdown]
No surrender in the blood.
No mercy from the grave.
No silence for the stolen.
No chain for the brave.

[Build-up]
Raise the cry, strike the ground,
Let the canyon shake with sound.

[Chorus]
War Paint at Dawn, ride through the fire,
Hearts like stone and souls like wire.
We do not fight for gold or crown,
We rise with War Paint at Dawn.

[Chorus]
War Paint at Dawn, the sky turns red,
For the living and the dead.
Until the final drum goes down,
We ride in War Paint at Dawn.

[Outro]
Before the sun had broken,
Before the horses cried,
We painted grief as thunder
And carried fire inside.