Gotham Shadows: A Batty Musical: Broken Wings

[Bruce (kneeling, soaked in rain):] Why, oh why, must the innocent fall? Two shadows lost, behind this wall. Crime Alley took, and nothing’s the same, Now vengeance burns inside my name!

[( Ghostly harmonies rise as the spirits of his parents sing) Ghost Waynes:] Everything! Everything! He lost everything that night! Everything! Everything! Now vengeance is his light!

[Bruce (pounding his fists on the ground):] Two lives erased, a promise made, A bat was born from shadows’ shade! Their love was all, now gone and dead, Now all that’s left is fear and dread!

[( Ghost Waynes continue to float and harmonize, hauntingly) Ghost Waynes:] Revenge, revenge, revenge! You carry it in every breath! Revenge, revenge, revenge! You’ll fight this war until your death!

[Bruce (now fully sobbing, yet still singing heroically):] I can’t go back, I can’t forget, Their faces haunt me with regret! This vow I made, I carry on, For in the night, I still belong!

[Chorus (rising as Bruce stands):] He fights, he fights, but can’t let go, Of all the pain he’ll never show. Revenge is fire, revenge is might, He’ll fight forever in the night!

[Bruce (one last time, screaming to the heavens):] I am vengeance, I am pain, But nothing will bring them back again!

(Thunder, dramatic lighting)