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Mutiny Lyrics

Mutiny

[EURYLOCHUS & SOLDIERS]
How much longer must we suffer now?
How much longer must we push through doubt?
How much longer must we go about
Our lives like this when people die like this?
Woah

[EURYLOCHUS]
When we fought the cyclops, you were quick to hatch a plan
And when we fought with Circe, it was you who left behind no man
But when we fought this monster, we didn't take a stand
We just ran
Say something

[ODYSSEUS]
I can't

[EURYLOCHUS]
Then you have forced my hand

[ODYSSEUS]
Lower your weapon

[EURYLOCHUS]
No can do
You miss your wife so bad you trade the lives of your own crew

[ODYSSEUS]
Don't make m? fight you, brother, you know you'd have done th? same

[EURYLOCHUS]
If you want all the power, you must carry all the blame

[SOLDIERS]
Eurylochus, Eurylochus, Eurylochus
Odysseus, Odysseus, Odysseus
There is no price he won't pay

[ODYSSEUS]
I am not letting you get in my way


Mutiny lyrics by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
Jorge Rivera-Herrans is singing the 'Mutiny' lyrics in the music video.

Song Overview

I still remember the evening “Mutiny” dropped, the Discord chats lighting up like signal fires across the Aegean. One click and—boom—electric guitar met orchestral brass, Armando Julián’s tenor tore through the speakers, and suddenly Odysseus and Eurylochus were dueling in my living room. Released July 4, 2024 as the fourth track of EPIC: The Thunder Saga, the song arrived with the album that knocked Taylor Swift off the top of the U.S. iTunes chart, a feat few bedroom musicals can boast. Its Spotify stream-count cracked 32 million within a year, and it even clawed up to #59 on the Top-Charts global ranking.

Review

Jorge Rivera-Herrans performing Mutiny
Performance in the music video.

The Mutiny lyrics waste no time; they thrust us straight onto the deck, salt spray and suspicion in the air. From the snapped-tight triplets on “Tell me, you did not know” to the choir’s panicked motif, the arrangement fuses pop-rock bravado with film-score heft, mirroring the clash between raw emotion and strategic restraint. The key takeaway? Rivera-Herrans dares to let his Odysseus look ugly—ruthless, cornered, human—while Julián’s Eu­ry­lochus channels every doubt your own inner crew has ever whispered.

Song Meaning and Annotations

The piece fires up in B-minor, but don’t be fooled by the sombre shell; beneath it thrums the pulse of a stadium anthem. Genre-wise it’s an audacious hybrid: Broadway belt meets prog-metal riffs, punctuated by cinematic strings that would feel at home in a Hans Zimmer score. The mood arcs from accusation to outright panic, tracking the psychological spiral of sailors who have watched six friends vanish into Scylla’s jaws.

Rivera-Herrans laces the libretto with Homeric in-jokes and TikTok call-backs. That opening melodic fragment? It echoes the lullaby “My Goodbye,” reminding fans of the cost of every choice. Later, Eu­ry­lochus reprises the “Luck Runs Out” hook—only this time he weaponises it against his captain.

At its heart Mutiny asks a timeless question: when does leadership slip into tyranny? Odysseus’s silence, his refusal to justify the sacrifice, becomes the spark that lights the crew’s revolt. In a culture that often glorifies lone-genius commanders, the song plants its flag for collective accountability.

Mutiny lyric video by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
A screenshot from the 'Mutiny' video.
“If you want all the power,
you must carry all the blame.”

Eurylochus’s ultimatum flips the classic heroic bargain on its head. Power, the lyric insists, is inseparable from guilt—a notion that lands with extra sting in 2025’s age of CEO mea culpas and public-facing leadership scandals.

Verse Highlights

Verse 1

Pitched like a courtroom cross-examination, the verse rides on syncopated snare hits while the strings stab in counter-rhythm—each accent a pointed finger.

Chorus

The chant “Eurylochus, Eurylochus” versus “Odysseus, Odysseus” splits the stereo field, literally placing the audience between duelling factions.

Bridge

After Perimedes’s surprise stab, the production drops to near silence—just a heartbeat of low brass and the wheeze of a wounded hero—before surging into the cattle-slaughter section whose melody mischievously mirrors Zeus’s earlier entrance motif.

Final Refrain

The refrain “Full speed ahead” accelerates from 128 BPM to a frantic 148, matching the crew’s desperation as thunder rolls overhead.

Annotations

[EURYLOCHUS]

The opening melody mirrors the ending of My Goodbye — a musical thread that signals we have crossed into darker territory, even before a single word is sung.

Tell me, you did not know that would happen
Say, you didn’t know how that would end

Odysseus did know. In Suffering he concedes that “Scylla has a cost,” so Eurylochus’s accusation lands like a spearpoint.

Look me in the eyes and tell me, Captain

Odysseus will not meet his gaze — a silent confession. Eurylochus spits “Captain” with palpable disgust, announcing his lost respect.

Use your wits to try and say I’m crazy and mad

Eurylochus is used to Odysseus’s quick-silver rhetoric — the same wit that named him “Nobody” to Polyphemus and twisted facts after Athena’s rebuke. Now he begs for one more lie to soften the truth.

Tell, me you did not miss home so painfully bad

The word “painfully” shows Eurylochus understands the ache driving his captain — yet still condemns the sacrifices it birthed.

That you gave up the lives of six of our friends

Thunder-saga Odysseus sacrificed men to Scylla, a stark contrast to Troy-saga Odysseus who once vowed, “No one ends up dead.” Ironically, Eurylochus once suggested abandoning crewmates turned to pigs — hypocrisy cuts both ways.

When we fought the cyclops …

Odysseus drugged Polyphemus, called himself Nobody, and escaped on wit. Facing Scylla, he offered no clever ruse — only six throats.

And when we fought with Circe …

Eurylochus recalls that Odysseus saved every pig-changed man, though Eury himself had pressed to flee. “There’s no length I wouldn’t go,” Odysseus said then — a vow now shattered.

But when we saw this monster, we didn’t take a stand
We just ran

To Eurylochus, retreat proved the final betrayal. Leadership died the moment courage fled.

Say something

Odysseus remains mute — perhaps hoping to be disproved, perhaps too ashamed to fight the truth.

I can’t

Because he won’t. Admission would confirm that he ordered torches knowing Scylla’s price.

Then you have forced my hand

The pause before this line lets the realization settle — and the electric guitar that follows steals Odysseus’s sonic signature, marking Eurylochus’s bid to seize command.

Hypocrisy exposed — Eurylochus blames Odysseus for cowardice yet once begged to run from problems himself: the wind bag, the pig spell, every divine threat.

[CREW]

The “Danger is nearby” motif swells under the crew’s chant, tension crackling until the line —

Lower your weapon

Raising steel against a king is treason. Odysseus still tries to de-escalate, proof that his ruthlessness is not yet absolute.

Fun detail: animatics give Eurylochus a greatsword reminiscent of Guts’s blade in Berserk.

You miss your wife so bad
You trade the lives of your own crew

Odysseus confessed in Just a Man he would “trade the world” for Penelope and Telemachus — Eurylochus merely repeats the charge.

Don’t make me fight you, brother
You know you’d have done the same

They are brothers-in-law — Eurylochus married to Odysseus’s sister Ctimene. The prophecy in No Longer You spoke of “a brother’s final stand.”

If you want all the power
You must carry all the blame

Irony sharp as a blade — Eurylochus seizes power yet refuses any blame for earlier disasters (opening Aeolus’s wind bag chief among them).

[ODYSSEUS and EURYLOCHUS face off]

In Gigi’s animatic, Odysseus’s smaller sword dances circles around Eurylochus’s heavy swings — quick slashes versus brute force.

Eurylochus, Eurylochus, Eurylochus
Odysseus, Odysseus, Odysseus

Name-chants echo past antagonists — Polyphemus, Poseidon, Zeus — but here the crew’s shout for Odysseus is noticeably softer, hinting at divided loyalties.

There is no price he won’t pay

The crew now see a captain willing to barter anything for Ithaca.

I am not letting you get in my way

Post-Monster Odysseus will kill to avert further bloodshed — paradoxically brutal for mercy’s sake.

[PERIMEDES stabs ODYSSEUS]

The sound of steel through flesh blurs who struck whom until Odysseus’s pained gasp clarifies the betrayal.

My brothers, why?

Perimedes — once loyal, once central in cut songs — has literally stabbed his captain in the back.

Now your time has come, your luck’s run out …

The melody mirrors Luck Runs Out, twisting the earlier warning into condemnation: “You relied on wit, and then we died on it.”

[EURYLOCHUS knocks out ODYSSEUS]

Everything goes black — the mutiny complete.

Argh, my head … Where are we?

Odysseus wakes bandaged on an unknown shore, wounds throbbing.

[Cattle can be heard nearby]

Thrinacia — Helios’s sacred pasture. Both Tiresias and Circe had warned him, “Shun the cattle of the Sun.”

Some island … bursting with cows

Eurylochus sings Zeus’s Horse and the Infant motif, foreshadowing another divine reckoning.

Just roaming around, begging us to eat
So much meat, and hunger is so heavy

Hunger echoes like thunder in the men’s bellies — the melody again quoting Zeus.

The god of the sun

Helios, not Apollo, owns these immortal herds.

Please don’t tell me you’re about to do what I think you’ll do

Roles reverse from Luck Runs Out: now Odysseus pleads while Eurylochus acts.

Ody … we’re never gonna get to make it home

Exhausted, starving, Eurylochus resigns himself to a shorter road to death.

You don’t know that’s true

Odysseus clings to hope — the same ferocity that will later doom the few survivors.

This is the home of the sun god

A deliberate echo of “This is the home of the wind god,” tying present peril to past folly.

I’m starving, my friend

Heart-wrenching: despite betrayal, Eurylochus still calls him “friend.”

But if you kill his cattle, who knows what he’ll send?

Irony again — the man once terrified of angering gods now risks the worst wrath of all.

I’m tired, my friend

Twelve years of war and wandering have hollowed the crew; they can no longer stomach vigilance.

But we’re so close to home, this can’t be where it ends

Odysseus reminds them that surviving Scylla proves home is near — if they hold fast.

How much longer must I suffer now? …

The chorus reprises Luck Runs Out — a lament turned rebellion.

EURYLOCHUS & CREW
How much longer must we suffer now? …

In Different Beast they vowed no more deaths “from you” — bitterly, they now become the danger themselves.

I’m just a man

A direct callback to Just a Man, stripping heroism down to exhausted mortality.

[EURYLOCHUS slits a cow’s throat]

The “Danger is nearby” leitmotif screams as sacred blood hits sand — Helios’s fury is assured.

You’ve doomed us …

At last the accusation flows the other direction: not Odysseus but Eurylochus has enraged an immortal.

Captain?

Fear restores the old title — mutiny dissolves the instant divine retribution looms.

We need to get away from this island now

According to stage directions, Odysseus frees himself before issuing this desperate command.

They were the sun god’s friends

Helios cherished these cattle; in Homer, he threatens to shine in the Underworld if Zeus spares their killers.

And now that we’ve pissed him off
Who do you think he’ll send?

Eurylochus has repeated the very sin he once feared — provoking a god and sealing the crew’s fate.

Full speed ahead …

The once-steady rowing refrain becomes frantic, overlapping, off-beat — panic in musical form.

[Thunder roars]

Lightning slices the “Danger” theme short — Zeus is already here.

We’re too late

A grim mirror of Keep Your Friends Close — Poseidon’s arrival then, Zeus’s now. Thunder says what words need not.

The mutiny ends where divine wrath begins — and no mortal oath can row faster than a god’s judgment.

Comments

The first thing you’ll notice is the melody — it mirrors the dying strains of My Goodbye, the moment at the end of Act 1 when Odysseus swore no one would be left behind. Now, that same tune is weaponized against him.

Tell me, you did not know that would happen…
Eurylochus isn’t asking — he’s daring Odysseus to lie. And Odysseus can’t. After all, in Suffering he already admitted “Scylla has a cost.” The six torches he handed out weren’t a gamble; they were payment.

When Eurylochus hisses “Captain”, the word drips with rusted respect. Odysseus won’t meet his eyes — a flicker of guilt the crew reads like a confession.

Use your wits to try and say I’m crazy and mad
Here’s the bitter twist: Eurylochus almost wants to be gas-lit. He’s watched Odysseus talk his way out of Cyclops caves and witch-goddess palaces — maybe, just maybe, this slaughter was another trick. But the silence that follows is worse than any lie.

Odysseus once promised “no length I wouldn’t go if it was you I had to save.” Now the ledger shows six lives traded for one man’s desperate sprint toward home. The crew remembers Circe’s pigs, the Cyclops’ cave — every time Odysseus chose cleverness over courage. Every time he ran.

I can’t
Two syllables, hollow as a drum. No plan, no spin — only the truth that burns worse than betrayal: this time the monster won and the captain blinked.

Then the guitars arrive — not Odysseus’s steady acoustic, but Eurylochus’s snarling electric. The sound of mutiny made manifest.

If you want all the power, you must carry all the blame
Irony sharpens the edge: Eurylochus levels this accusation while seizing the helm, shouldering nothing. Odysseus, bleeding on deck, still tries to de-escalate — Lower your weapon — but brotherhood has already snapped like a frayed rope.

In the animatic, blades flash; Eurylochus swings a greatsword modeled after Berserk’s Guts, all brute rage. Odysseus darts, smaller, quicker, carving defensive scars into the planks. Every clash sounds like an apology that arrives too late.

  • Chants erupt: first Eurylochus, louder, then Odysseus — muted, almost swallowed by the deck. The crew has chosen.
  • Perimedes — Elpenor’s best friend, the one Odysseus once dragged off the Lotus-Eaters’ shore — drives the knife from behind. The gasp is spoken, not sung; betrayal doesn’t rhyme.
My brothers, why?
It’s not just pain — it’s genuine shock. He taught them to survive, and they survived him.

When consciousness returns, cattle low nearby. The island blooms with forbidden meat, and hunger gnaws louder than conscience.

Some island… bursting with cows… begging us to eat
The melody here borrows from Zeus’s cold proclamation in The Horse and the Infant, foreshadowing another divine reckoning. Helios’s immortal herd graze like statues that bleed.
Ody, we’re never gonna make it home… I’m just a man
The nickname lands soft as an old wound. Years of salt and blood collapse into two syllables: Ody. Eurylochus isn’t a villain — he’s exhausted, starving, haunted by friends who died wearing torchlight. He slits the cow’s throat not in triumph, but surrender.

Thunder answers before the blade is clean. Zeus arrives with a lightning bolt that cuts the Danger is Nearby motif mid-breath. The crew scramble — Full speed ahead, faster, faster — but the storm is already inside the hull.

We’re too late
Not a curse — a diagnosis. The moment the first cow fell, the voyage ended. All that’s left is counting who burns last.

Song Credits

Scene from Mutiny by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
Scene from 'Mutiny'.
  • Featured: Armando Julián, Cast of EPIC: The Musical
  • Producer: Jorge Rivera-Herrans; JP Warner (sound design)
  • Composer: Jorge Rivera-Herrans
  • Release Date: July 4, 2024
  • Genre: Pop-rock / Orchestral Musical Theatre
  • Instruments: electric guitar, orchestral strings, French horns, drum kit, choral ensemble
  • Label: Winion Entertainment LLC
  • Mood: Defiant, volatile, tragic
  • Length: ~3 min 30 s
  • Track #: 4 of 5 on The Thunder Saga
  • Language: English
  • Album: EPIC: The Musical
  • Poetic meter: Predominantly iambic tetrameter with off-beat internal rhymes
  • Copyrights ©: 2024 Winion Entertainment LLC

Similar Songs Exploring Themes of Betrayal & Duty

  1. “Confrontation” – Les Misérables (London Cast)
    Like Mutiny, this duet pits two moral codes against each other—Valjean’s mercy versus Javert’s law—over escalating minor-key motifs. Both tracks use repeated name-chants to embody ideological siege.
  2. “The Rum-Tum-Tugger” – Hamilton (Reprise)
    Lin-Manuel’s cabinet rap battles mirror Odysseus/Eurylochus’s verbal sparring: rapid-fire accusations riding hip-hop rhythms inside a historical frame.
  3. “Before the Breakdown” – Hadestown
    Where Eurydice questions Orpheus’s survival plan, Eurylochus doubts Odysseus’s. Both songs flirt with fatalism and employ cyclical melodies that foretell catastrophe.

Questions and Answers

Why did Jorge Rivera-Herrans write Eurylochus as the instigator?
Because in Homer’s Odyssey Eurylochus repeatedly challenges Odysseus’s calls; highlighting him gives the musical a credible mutineer and sets up the moral grey zone.
Is “Mutiny” a standalone single?
No. It belongs to The Thunder Saga EP, but Spotify treats each track as individually streamable.
What vocal range is required for Odysseus’s part?
Baritone G2 to A?4, with optional belted B4 for the final “Full speed ahead.”
Are there notable covers?
Yes—Somni and Malina Rose released a female-led cover that has 180 k YouTube views and showcases the song’s adaptability.
Will “Mutiny” appear in a stage adaptation?
The creative team has hinted all Thunder Saga tracks—including “Mutiny”—will form the Act 2 midpoint when the show moves off-TikTok.

Awards and Chart Positions

While “Mutiny” itself hasn’t snagged silverware yet, the parent EP debuted at #1 on the U.S. iTunes soundtrack chart, overtaking Taylor Swift’s latest drop. On streaming, the track’s 32.9 million Spotify plays rank it among the musical’s top five songs.

How to Sing

Tempo hovers around 128 BPM but ramps to 148 in the final chorus. Eu­ry­lochus requires a bright tenor (A3–C5) with quick flips between chest and mix, while Odysseus lives lower but demands gritty distortion. Breath support is critical during the relentless chant; mark rests by inhaling on off-beats “Eu-ry-lo-chus.” Practice staccato scales to nail the rapid syllables, then add controlled growls for the spoken-sung lines.

Fan and Media Reactions

“Hot take: Mutiny is one of the best songs in EPIC.”—u/No-Cover5475, Reddit
“Odysseus may be clever, but his leadership skills suck—and this song proves it.”—u/Master-Shrimp, Reddit
“Drama, mixed motifs, life-changing instrumentation… by Zeus, it’s so good.”—u/iNullGames, Reddit
“The Thunder Saga is a roller-coaster; ‘Mutiny’ is the drop that leaves your stomach behind.”The Pinion review
“Fans have created their own animations to bring Mutiny to life—TikTok is rewriting how we meet musicals.”The Guardian


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