[Verse 1]
Stone by stone, he came in red
Boots on the bricks where the banners bled
Through the pipes and the brickwork seams
He learned the map of broken dreams
Mushroom hills under ash-gray skies
Coins in the mud and the guards in line
One small man with a torch in hand
Marked every wall in the kingdom's sand
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that march
Up through the halls
Hear that march
As the old crown falls
[Chorus]
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Peach's tower shakes tonight
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Bow to the new dawn light
[Verse 2]
In the castle room with the painted gold
She ruled by grace, by fear, by cold
But the vault was deep and the people were done
With feast-room vows and a borrowed sun
So he crossed the moat in the black of dawn
With the workers' fists and the old world gone
He took the keys from the velvet throne
And wrote his name in the marrow and stone
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that march
Up through the halls
Hear that march
As the old crown falls
[Chorus]
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Peach's tower shakes tonight
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Bow to the new dawn light
[Bridge]
No more silk for the chosen few
No more crumbs for the tired and bruised
Every pipe, every block, every road they knew
Belongs to the hands that built it true
Then the flags came down like severed rain
And the bells rang hard in the window frames
Mario stood where the throne had burned
And every closed fist slowly turned
[Final Chorus]
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Peach's tower shakes tonight
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
Bow to the new dawn light
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
One kingdom, forged in fire and fight
Red cap rising
Red cap rising
He took the crown back in the night