[Verse 1] Santiago smoke, a baby on a plane Mother's arms the only country that remained Two flags, no home, a tongue that split in two Twenty years of "almost" — twenty years of "who are you?" Audition tapes like letters never sent Each door that closed was just another year I spent [Pre-Chorus] They dressed me in a hundred different skins But nobody asked the man within [Chorus] Behind the mask, behind the mask They loved the face they'd never seen Behind the mask, behind the mask The invisible man became the dream I was here the whole time I was here the whole time [Verse 2] They handed me a helmet for a desert made of stars A soldier with no country guarding somebody else's scars The visor felt like freedom — I'd been hiding all along Invisible in every room until the world gave me the song And when a billion people stared into the eyes beneath the steel They didn't see a character They saw somebody real [Pre-Chorus] The refugee became the myth The ghost became the gift [Chorus] Behind the mask, behind the mask They loved the face they'd never seen Behind the mask, behind the mask The invisible man became the dream I was here the whole time I was here the whole time [Bridge] If you've ever been the name nobody placed The understudy, the almost, the forgettable face Take off the helmet Let them see the scars You were never invisible You were becoming who you are [Final Chorus] Behind the mask, behind the mask I was the face they'd always need Behind the mask, behind the mask The invisible man is finally free I was here the whole time I was here... the whole... time [Outro] Behind the mask... Always here
