(Verse 1) The memory aches like a brand in the bone, For years I have lived in the shadows alone. I built up a fortress of anger and steel, To numb out the grief and to keep it all real. They looked at the armor and saw just a beast, While I starved out my soul at a sorrowful feast. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give. (Verse 2) A puzzle of riddles, a mind in a spin, Forcing me deep to look closely within. "Who are you under the leather and paint?" A question that turns every sinner to saint. I was hiding away from the boy in the well, Trapped in the walls of my own private hell. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give. (Verse 3) It’s heavy to carry a tragedy's ghost, And blame your own self for the thing you loved most. For so long I thought that the cape was a shroud, A cry for redemption alone in the crowd. I punished myself for the turns of the wheel, Refusing to let any happiness heal. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give. (Verse 4) Then Chase looked right past all the iron and stone, And showed me I didn't have to walk on alone. She loved both the man and the beast in the dark, And breathed a new life right back into the spark. You can't change the past or rewrite what was done, You just have to turn toward the rise of the sun. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give. (Verse 5) It’s not what we hide, but the choices we make, That show who we are when the foundations shake. I'm throwing away all the guilt and the shame, No longer escaping the sound of my name. The bat isn't prison, it’s strength to stand tall, A shield for the broken who happen to fall. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give. (Verse 6) So let Gotham glow with the neon and light, I'm stepping right out of the ghost of the night. No longer a victim of yesterday's pain, I’m walking ahead through the wind and the rain. It’s not just a costume, it’s who I am deep— A promise for ever, a vow I will keep. (Chorus) 'Cause I used to believe that the mask was a cage, A way to outrun all the grief and the rage. But the mirror reflects who I'm meant to be, It’s not just a shadow—it’s standing right free. I am the night, and I’m ready to live, With all of the grace that the healing can give.
