The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane

Verse 1 I’m reading the Gotham Gazette in the pouring rain Another Maroni hit, another Falcone gain The zeppelins hum like wasps in the heavy grey sky Shining lights on the grime where the innocent die We live in the shadow of towers that touch the clouds While down in Crime Alley, we’re stitching our shrouds The subway to Burnside is broken again Just rusted metal and angry, forgotten men. Chorus And the bus is leaving for the edge of town Where the cliffs are jagged and the walls look down There’s a sign in iron that speaks our doom: "The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum" looms Oh, Gotham City eats her young alive Only the mad and the cruel survive If you lose your mind, well, they know your name In the halls of the Criminally Insane. Verse 2 I saw a doctor drinking at the Stacked Deck Bar Trembling hands, trying to start his car He works on the island, past the security gate Where Amadeus Arkham sealed his fate He says the screams from the cells never really stop Says the GCPD is just a corrupt prop He whispered of plants that move and fear gas in the air But we just keep walking with that thousand-yard stare. Bridge Don't go walking in Robinson Park at night And avoid the Iceberg Lounge if you want to stay right The water in the reservoir tastes like lead And the Monarch Theater is a shrine to the dead We pay our taxes to a city of rot Hoping the madness just... forgot where we live. Verse 3 The bridge is raised up, cutting us off from the shore The lightning reveals that gothic gothic horror once more It’s not a hospital, it’s a cage for the sins Of a city where nobody, nobody wins So lock up your windows in the Diamond District tight Because something has broken out again tonight. Outro Welcome to Gotham. Enjoy your stay. The ferry to Arkham leaves... right away. Leaves right away.