Part One

(album: Race Wars - 2011)

The horror, it was Zorro
He was wearing a mask
I was out with my folks
And we was having a laugh

We didn't do this too often
Mingle with the proletariats
Folks with old money
And too often they were scaredy cats

Always going out
Leaving me with the help
Always raising funds
And I'm left by myself

They saw that I was missin out
On being a kid
Dad said we're going out
And I'm flipping my lid

I was lost in the dark
Like that time in the cave
Surrounded by bats
Alone and afraid

Big Z on my screen
Meant dueling and danger
Someone so evil
Can focus their anger

A hero that sent the unjust to their ruin
A mask to protect from people pursuing
A cape to conceal a collection of tricks
And everything black, on this he insists

I am the Batman
I jump up and then I land
You don't know what I got in my hand
The shape of a bat you go "SPLAT!" and "KABLAM!"

I am the Dark Knight
I do whats right, but I do it out of spite
Don't look quite right if you turn on the light
I'll land with a boom "Which goon wanna fight?"

Dad had the limo out back
I was sacked out cause I'm a little lad
Don't wanna be older, head's on a shoulder
I heard a loud sound, and I went on the ground

It was sadly in crime alley and my father was dead
My mother was screaming till she was shot in the head
I see pearls in a puddle that was suddenly red
The memory gets muddled except what the man said

"Ever dance with the Devil
In the pale moonlight?"
A riddle I'll remember
For the rest of my life

This killer was a chiller
I was froze to the bone
Alfred found me, I was howling
Like a pup on his own

I made a promise to my parents
In the circle of light
I would vanquish evil in a cape
Maybe some tights

I didn't know how I would do it
Or which form I would take
I just knew it was a creature
Only I could create

I am the Batman
I jump up and then I land
You don't know what I got in my hand
The shape of a bat you go "SPLAT!" and "KABLAM!"

I am the Dark Knight
I do whats right, but I do it out of spite
Don't look quite right if you turn on the light
I'll land with a boom "Which goon wanna fight?"

Tompkins and Pennyworth
Packed plenty of socks
Brought a legion of luggage
Drug it down to the docks

But I gave them the slip
Stowed away on a freight
I was pissed with being rich
Life's a bitch, so they say

Foreign land, with the plan
And the knowledge within
For soon I'd be a man
That would need to begin

This quest to be best
And defend the oppressed
Packed in the projects
Like objects and pests

I'd have to return
But for now, I would train
I learned tracking and hunting
On the African plains

In China learned Tao
Japan learned Jiu Jitsu
Don't believe you would bleed
Then let me convince you

Nerve pinch in a pinch
Leopard palm, knuckle strike
Used the Quivering Palm
In a fight take a life

Over a hundred forms
Of hand-to-hand anguish
Bestowed on my dome
Learned every language

Studied shadows with ninjas
Disguise and escape
Learned boxing, detoxing
Concealing with capes

Went to Cambridge, Sorbonne
But never for too long
Before the end of the semester
I would have to be gone

Came home to forgotten
Gotham's so rotten and twisted
Came home to my mansion
It's a vast stash of riches

Brooding in the darkness
With a bust of my father
A bat through the window
"A question of honor."

I am the Batman
I jump up and then I land
You don't know what I got in my hand
The shape of a bat you go "SPLAT!" and "KABLAM!"

I am the Dark Knight
I do whats right, but I do it out of spite
Don't look quite right if you turn on the light
I'll land with a boom "Which goon wanna fight?"