You come in while I'm sitting at the mirror   You wanna say you know that I look nice   I sit in desperate silence and I listen   And with a cutting eye, you know you'd better look twice      'Cos I'm putting on my war paint   I'm on the path again   And before you say it looks great   You'd better look again      Red is for the anger that you put me through   And for all those nights I felt alone, will see a shade of blue   I'll add a dash of yellow for the power that you've been   And the black will be your nights ahead   And my shadow in your bed   I'm putting on my war paint      There's nothing you can say to make it better   And there's no apology to change my mind   I guess I could have sent a dear John letter   But it's written on my face, it's war paint time      'Cos I'm putting on my war paint   I'm on the path again   And before you say it looks great   You'd better look again      Red is for the anger that you put me through   And for all those nights I felt alone, will see a shade of blue   I'll add a dash of yellow for the power that you've been   And the black will be your nights ahead   And my shadow in your bed      I'm putting on my war paint   I'm on the path again   I'm putting on my war paint   I'm on the path again   I'm putting on my war paint      Red is for the anger that you put me through   I'm putting on my war paint   And for all those nights I felt alone, will see a shade of blue   I'm putting on my war paint   Red is for the anger that you put me through   I'm putting on my war paint   And for all those nights I felt alone, will see a shade of blue   I'm putting on my war paint   Red is for the anger that you put me through