Monster - Jorge Rivera-Herrans/Cast of EPIC: The Musical

Lyrics by：Jorge Miguel Rivera-Herrans

Composed by：Jorge Miguel 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 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 'cause 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

Monster

Oh ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

Monster

And deep down I know this well

I lost my best friend

I lost my mentor my mom

500 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

Monster

Penelope

Monster

Telemachus

Monster

Oh ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

Monster

I'll become the monster