Cm
  How has everything been turned against us?
Bb
  How did suffering become so endless?
Ab                                G4
  How am I to reunite with my estranged?
                 G
  Do I need to change?

Cm
  I'm surrounded by the souls of those I've lost
Bb
  I'm the only one whose line I haven't crossed
Ab                                                  G4
  What if the greatest threat we'll find across the sea
   G
Is me?

                Ab
What if I'm the monster?
                   Db7M
What if I'm in the wrong?
                Bb                             Eb7M
What if I'm the problem that's been hiding all along?
        Gm              Ab
What if I'm the one who killed you
                      Db7M
Every time I caved to guilt?
                          Bb
What if I've been far too kind to foes
                     Eb7M
But a monster to ourselves?
Gm
What if I'm the monster

       Ab
Is the Cyclops struck with guilt when he kills?
      Db7M
Is he up in the middle of the night?
           Bb
Or does he end my men to avenge his friend
         Eb7M                          Gm
And then sleep knowing he has done him right?

         Ab                                     Db7M
When the witch turns men to pigs to protect her nymphs

Is she going insane?
           Bb
Or did she learn to be colder when she got older
    Eb7M                   Gm
And now she saves them the pain?
       Ab
When a God comes down and makes a fleet drown
      Db7M
Is he scared that he's doing something wrong?
           Bb
Or does he keep us in check so we must respect him
    Eb7M                         Gm
And now no one dares to piss him off?
       Ab                                          Db7M
Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping trojans cause he is vile?
           Bb
Or does he throw away his remorse and save more lives with guile

                Ab                             G7
If I became the monster, and threw that guilt away
                   Cm
Would that make us stronger?
                          Bb
Would it keep our foes at bay?
                Ab                       G7
If I became the monster to everyone but us
                     Cm
And made sure we got home again
                           Bb
Who would care if we're unjust?
                Ab
If I became the Monster
    G               G7              Cm
Oh, ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves
         Bb
And deep down I know this well
          Ab
I lost my best friend

I lost my mentor, my mom
     G
Five hundred men gone, this can't go on
       Cm                         Bb
I must get to see Penelope and Telemachus
   G                       Cm
So if we must sail through dangerous oceans and beaches
     Bb
I'll go where Poseidon won't reach us
                            Ab
And if I gotta drop another infant from a wall
                              G
In an instant so we all don't die
                     Ab
Then I'll become the Monster
                G7
I will deal the blow
                    Cm
And I'll become the Monster
                       Bb
Like none they've ever known
                   Ab
So what if I'm the Monster
               G7
Lurking deep below?
                  Cm
I must become the Monster
                       Bb
And then we'll make it home

[Soldiers]
Ab
Monster

[Odysseus]
G7
Penelope

[Soldiers]
Cm
Monster

[Odysseus]
   Bb4
Telemachus

[Soldiers]
Ab
Monster

[Odysseus]
       G                           Cm
Oh, ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves
Bb                         Cm
   I'll become the monster