[Intro]
[low
Haunted]
Shattered frame in the hallway glass
Blood on pearls in the guttered rain
Every echo keeps asking
What will you do with the pain?
[Verse 1]
The boy in the back of my eyes
Still counting the cracks in the floor
Two shadows fell
And never got up
So I built them a vow
And a door
The city keeps begging for saviors
Then biting them down to the bone
If mercy just feeds all the monsters
Then fury will never die alone
[Pre-Chorus]
So stitch up the fear
With leather and steel
Let sorrow speak louder than screams
If they won’t believe
The man that I am
They’ll learn to believe in a dream (oh)
[Chorus]
I am the night
I am the answer
To every whispered
Helpless cry in the dark
I am the blade
Cut from disaster
I pull my wounds on
Like armor and scars
Face disappears
When the mask comes down
I turn my pain into justice now
I am the shadow that ends their fright
I am vengeance
I am the night
I am Batman
[Verse 2]
They say that a face is a promise
But mine has been broken for years
So I carve out a creed in the concrete
A language of terror and tears
This cave is a throat full of secrets
These gadgets are teeth in the black
I’ll haunt every rooftop and alley
Till cowards are scared to turn back
[Pre-Chorus]
The silk of their lies
The silk of her pearls
Both falling and falling through time
If hope is a word
They buried with them
Then I’ll be the word in their minds (hey)
[Chorus]
I am the night
I am the answer
To every whispered
Helpless cry in the dark
I am the blade
Cut from disaster
I pull my wounds on
Like armor and scars
Face disappears
When the mask comes down
I turn my pain into justice now
I am the shadow that ends their fright
I am vengeance
I am the night
I am Batman
[Bridge]
Let them tremble at rust in the fire escape
Let them hear my name in the siren’s break
I’m the myth in the mirror behind their eyes
I’m the last breath stolen before they lie
[build]
If grief is a grave
I won’t lay down
I’ll rise from the dirt and the doubt
I’ll carry their ghosts
In the shape of this cowl
I’ll be what this city cries out
[Final Chorus]
I am the night
I am the answer
To every broken
Begging voice in the dark
I am the blade
Cut from disaster
I pull my wounds on
Like armor and scars
Curtain of fear
And I cut it down
I turn my pain into justice now
When terror is all that they see in the sky
I am vengeance
I am the night
[hold]
I am the night
I am the night
I am
Batman