Intro](rain pouring, distant sirens, boots walking on wet pavement) The city never really sleepsSo neither do I [Hook]No sleep in GothamMind always watchingScanning every shadow in the room for problemsEverybody safe when I carry the darknessBut nobody ask what carrying dark does No peace in my headNo silence at allEvery scar got a voice when the night fallsAnd the lonelier it getsThe heavier the mask does [Verse 1]I read energy before words get spokenNotice fake smiles before trust get brokenWalk through life with emotional armorCause pain taught me preparation matters Quiet men got the loudest stormsYou just don’t hear thunder till pressure formsI isolate when my mind overloadCause I’d rather disappear than explode I know what broken homes createThat’s why I move careful around my rageTrying to protect the people I loveWithout becoming the thing I hate Late nights riding through the city aloneMusic low while my thoughts patrolEverybody think I’m emotionally strongTruth is I just mastered moving cold [Hook]No sleep in GothamMind always watchingScanning every shadow in the room for problemsEverybody safe when I carry the darknessBut nobody ask what carrying dark does No peace in my headNo silence at allEvery scar got a voice when the night fallsAnd the lonelier it getsThe heavier the mask does [Verse 2]I can’t relax in crowded roomsAlways tracking tension like a sixth sense toolTrauma turned my brain tacticalNow peace itself feel unusual I overanalyze every facial twitchEvery shift in tone, every subtle switchLike if I catch danger before it landsMaybe I can stop pain before it hits But hyper-awareness got a cost tooYou start carrying storms that aren’t yours toAnd eventually the line get blurryBetween protecting people and losing you My kids hug me and I soften instantlyThat’s the only place my soul breathe differentlyCause the world made me hard strategicallyBut fatherhood brought humanity back to me [Bridge](choir softly rising) I don’t fear the dark anymoreI fear what happens if it winsI fear becoming emotionally numbAnd passing that curse to my kids [Verse 3]Sometimes I feel like the cave collapsingPressure building while I keep adaptingSmile on my face while my chest cave inStill standing cause everybody need Batman But who protects the protector?Who comforts the man under all the effort?Who reminds him he don’t gotta bleed aloneJust because he survived every lecture from life? I know I got flawsI know I get distantI know I disappear when emotionally twistedBut I never stopped loving my peopleEven when my own mind turned against me So if I seem quietI’m probably fightingSome internal war you can’t see with your eyelidsTrying to keep the city in me from burningBefore the darkness decide it’s permanent [Epic Batman Ending](orchestral drums explode, thunder cracks) The cape heavyThe nights longThe wounds deepBut I still move forward Cause heroes don’t always feel fearlessSometimes they just refuse to quit (rain slows) And somewhere above the city skylineA tired man keeps watching Not because he wants to Because somebody has to (distant grapple hook sound / fade to black)
