from his newest album, Race Wars. Lyrics below.
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The horror; it was Zorro, he was wearin' a mask
I was out with my folks and we was havin' a laugh
We didn't do this too often, mingle with the proletariat
Folks were old money and too often they were scaredy cats
Always goin' out, leavin' me with the help
Always raisin' funds, and i'm left with myself
They saw that i was missing out on being a kid,
Dad said we're goin' out, and i'm flippin' my lid
I was lost in the dark given time in the cave
Surrounded by bats, alone and afraid
Big Z on the screen meant dueling and danger,
a someone so evil, could focus their anger
A hero that sent the unjust to their ruin,
A mask to protect different people pursuin'
A cape to conceal a collection of tricks,
And everything black, on this he insists
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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 kabam
I am the Dark Knight
I do what's right, but i do it out of spite
Don't look quite right if you turn on the light
I land with a boom, which goon wanna fight?
Dad had the limo out back
I was sacked out 'cuz i'mma little lad
Don't wanna be older, heads 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
My memory gets muddled 'cept for what the man said:
Ever danced 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 home like a pup on his own
I made a promise to my parents in a 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 it would take
I just knew it was a creature only i could create.
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Tompkins and Pennyworth packed plenty of socks
Brought a legion of luggage, dragged it down to the docks
But i gave him the slip, stowed away in a freight
I was pissed at bein' rich, life's a bitch what they say
foreign land with a 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 or 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 Ju-Jitsu
Don't believe you would bleed, then let me convince you
Nerve pinch in a pinch, leopard palm, knuckle strike
Use the quivering palm in a fight, take a life
400 forms of hand to hand anguish
Bestowed on my dome learned every language
Started Chilling with ninjas
Learned boxing,detoxing conceal with a cape
Went to Cambridge, Sorbonne, but never for too long
'fore the end of the semester i would have to be gone
Came home to forgotten Gotham, so rotten and twisted
Came home to my mansion and it's vast stash of riches
Brooding in the darkness with a bust of my father
A bat through the window, a question of honor
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