Masks of the Night （夜の仮面） [ENG/JPN]

Written by John Paul Bantigue Velvet Abyss | YAKUN BMI • IPI/CAE 01366401460 © 2025 John Paul Bantigue ℗ 2025 John Paul Bantigue • JP Bantigue Records jpbbantigue.com Court of Masks album: https://suno.com/playlist/b08dd599-b196-4425-81c3-b84f3b3e3eac (夜が見てる…) Shh… someone’s listening. (仮面の下で、息を潜めて。) Breathe slow… don’t let the crown fall. 灯り消えて— I can’t see clear, the marble floor remembers fear. 金の涙, fall unseen, each drop a secret in between. Shadows bend along the glass, the courtiers pray as daggers pass. I smile beneath this painted sin, while guilt and grace both burn within. Whisper softly, 誰も信じない— (誰も信じない…) We’re ghosts behind our eyes. In this coup, 夢は灰, hearts like coins we learn to buy. Every vow, another chain, every love, another pain. 夜の仮面, can’t breathe— この罪, won’t ever leave. The captain steals, the priest forgives, no one recalls who truly lives. Contessa still smiles with crimson grace— I see my ruin in her face. 影が泣く, the silence bleeds, truth devoured by royal greed. If I run, will dawn forget— this blood that seals our secret debt? In this coup, no kings remain— ただ嘘 and endless rain. Raise your glass to those we lost, our crowns are made of frost. 夜の仮面, fade to gray— what’s love but truth we hide away? (灯り消えて…) We were never free. Only beautiful— in the ways we were broken.