Monster

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? 
                   Dbmaj7 
What if I'm in the wrong? 
                Bb                             Ebmaj7 
What if I'm the problem that's been hiding all along? 
        Gm              Ab 
What if I'm the one who killed you 
                      Dbmaj7 
Every time I caved to guilt? 
                          Bb 
What if I've been far too kind to foes 
                     Ebmaj7 
But a monster to ourselves? 
Gm 
What if I'm the monster 

       Ab 
Is the Cyclops struck with guilt when he kills? 
      Dbmaj7 
Is he up in the middle of the night? 
           Bb 
Or does he end my men to avenge his friend 
         Ebmaj7                          Gm 
And then sleep knowing he has done him right? 

         Ab                                     Dbmaj7 
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 
    Ebmaj7                   Gm 
And now she saves them the pain? 
       Ab 
When a God comes down and makes a fleet drown 
      Dbmaj7 
Is he scared that he's doing something wrong? 
           Bb 
Or does he keep us in check so we must respect him 
    Ebmaj7                         Gm 
And now no one dares to piss him off? 
       Ab                                          Dbmaj7 
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