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Monster

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Cm
 
Bb
How has everything been turned against us?
Ab
How did suffering become so endless?
G
How am I to reunite with my estranged?
 
Do I need to change?
 
 
Cm
 
C7 Bb
I'm surrounded by the souls of those I've
 
lost
 
I'm the only one whose line I haven't
Ab
crossed
 
What if the greatest threat we'll find
G
across the sea
 
Is me?
Abmaj7
What if I'm the monster?
Fm
What if I'm in the wrong?
Gm
What if I'm the problem that's been hiding
 
all along?
Abmaj7
What if I'm the one who killed you every
Fm
time I caved to guilt?
Gm
What if I've been far too kind to foes but a
 
monster to ourselves?
 
What if I'm the monster?
Abmaj7
Is the cyclops struck with guilt when he
Fm
kills? Is he up in the middle of the night?
Gm
Or does he end my men to offence his friend
 
and then sleet knowing he has done him
 
right?
Abmaj7
When the witch turns men to pigs to protect
Fm
her nymphs is she going insane?
Gm
Or did she learn to be colder when she got
 
older and now she saves them the pain?
Abmaj7
When a god comes down and makes the fleet
Fm
drown is he scared that he's doing something
 
wrong?
Gm7 Gm
Or does he keep us in check so we must
 
respect him and now no one dares to piss him
 
off?
Abmaj7
Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill
Fm
sleeping Trojans cuz he is vile?
Gm7
Or does he throw away his remorse and save
Abmaj7
more lives with gall if I became the
 
monster?
G7
Do that guilt away?
Cm
Would that make us stronger would it keep
Bb
our foes at bay?
Abmaj7 G
If I became the monster to everyone but us
Cm
And made sure we got home again Who would
Bb
care if we're unjust
Ebm7 Abmaj7
If I became the monster?
G
Oh, ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves And
Cm7 Bb Dmaj7
deep down I know this well
Abmaj7 Dm7
I lost my best friend, I lost my mentor, my
Cm
mom
G
Five hundred men gone, this can't go on I
Cm Gm Bb
must get to see Penelope and Telemachus
Bm Cmaj7 Cm
So if we must sail through dangerous oceans
 
and beaches
Gmaj7
I'll go where Poseidon won't reach us
Dbmaj7 Abm
And if I gotta drop another infant from a
Cmaj7 Gmaj7
wall in an instant so we all don't die
Dbmaj7 Abmaj7
Then I'll become the monster, I will deal
G7
the blow
Cm
And I'll become the monster like none
Dm7
they've ever known
Bb Dbmaj7 Abmaj7
So what if I'm the monster lurking deep
 
below?
G7 Cm7
I must become the monster and then we'll
F Bbm
make it home
Abmaj7
Monster
Gmaj7 Cm
Penelope
Bb
Monster
 
Tenelogos
Ab
Monster
G7 F7
Holiness is mercy upon ourselves
Cm7
Monster
Bb F
Holiness
 
I'll become the monster
 
 
C
 

Editing: Monster

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