"Deranged"

"Deranged" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the second track on the 2011 complication album Batman: Arkham City - The Album.

Lyrics
This city's lost its hope I repeat, I boast The strange will walk alone They scurry with their doubt The darkness shrouds, the sirens shout Against the concrete below Ooh, This works all you and me Its all our being We'll burn this city down

Who will be your pretty little enemy? When I'm gone your world will prove empty I promise, you will always remember me The jokes on you, poison me While you clean the streets of misfortune I pick the innocent from my dirty teeth We're one and the same Deranged

We were our worst nightmares delight And I promised you As you always knew Our world's no paradise

Who will be your pretty little enemy? When I'm gone your world will prove empty I promise, you will always remember me The jokes on you, poison me While you clean the streets of misfortune I pick the innocent from my dirty teeth We're one and the same Deranged There is no me without you I will behave I will be an afterthought Your make believe Your darkest day, your friend in need

Who will be your pretty little enemy? When I'm gone your world will prove empty I promise, you will always remember me The jokes on you, poison me While you clean the streets of misfortune I pick the innocent from my dirty teeth We're one and the same Deranged

Story Context
"Main article: Batman: Arkham City (Plot)."In the first verse, Joker is outlining how Gotham is now overrun with the inhabitants of Arkham Asylum, causing chaos in the streets, which both he and his adversary, Batman, thrive on (according to him). He then says "Who will be your pretty little enemy? / When I'm gone your world will prove empty" which is him saying, "You and I can't exist without each other." He mentions how he's been poison and he blames Batman for this. But no matter how much Batman does to "clean up" the city, Joker will be right behind him to undone it all. These behaviors clearly make them both deranged. Of course, Joker thinks they're equal, but Batman is in denial of this, so Joker promises he'll get him to see it. He'll force Batman to help him since he feels its his fault he's poison, which he does by poisoning him too, completely the idea that they exist in a kind of symbiotic relationship.

Background
Sanchez said "I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria, but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it" and that "my goal was to find universal themes from Batman's existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world". The song is written from Joker's perspective and addresses Batman.