Karaoké Monster Epic: The Musical (Jorge Rivera-Herrans)

How has everything been turned against us

How did suffering become so endless

How am I to reunite with my estranged

Do I need to change

I'm surrounded by the souls of those I've lost

I'm the only one whose line

I haven't crossed

What if the greatest threat we'll find across the sea is me

What if I'm the monster

What if I'm in the wrong

What if I'm the problem that's been hiding all along

What if I'm the one who killed you every time I caved to guilt

What if I've been far too kind to foes but a monster to ourselves

What if I'm the monster

Is the Cyclops struck with guilt when he kills

Is he up in the middle of the night

Or does he end my men to avenge his friend and then sleep knowing he has done him right

When the witch turns men to pigs to protect her nymphs is she going insane

Or did she learn to be colder when she got older and now she saves them the pain

When a God comes down and makes a fleet drown

Is he scared that he's doing something wrong

Or does he keep us in check so we must respect him and now no one dares to piss him off

Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping trojans 'cos he is vile

Or does he throw away his remorse and save more lives with guile

If I became the monster and threw that guilt away would that make us stronger

Would it keep our foes at bay

If I became the monster to everyone but us

And made sure we got home again

Who would care if we're unjust

If I became the

Oh ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

And deep down I know this well

I lost my best friend

I lost my mentor, my mom

Five hundred men gone

This can't go on

I must get to see Penelope and Telemachus so if we must sail through

Dangerous oceans and beaches

I'll go where

Poseidon won't reach us

And if I gotta drop another infant from a wall in an instant so we all don't die

Then I'll become the monster

I will deal the blow

And I'll become the monster like none they've ever known

So what if I'm the monster lurking deep below

I must become the monster and then we'll make it home

Penelope

Telemachus

Oh ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

I'll become the monster