Stephen Sondheim - Agony: Reprise lyrics

CP: High in a tower-- Like yours was, but higher-- A beauty asleep All 'round the tower A thicket of briar A hundred feet deep Agony! No frustration more keen When the one thing you want Is a thing that you've not even seen RP: I've found a casket Entirely of gla**-- No, it's unbreakable Inside--don't ask it-- A maiden, alas Just as unwakeable-- Both: What unmistakable agony! Is the way always barred? RP: She has skin white as snow-- CP: Did you learn her name? RP: No, there's a dwarf standing guard Both: Agony! Such that princes must weep! Always in thrall most To anything almost Or something asleep CP: If it were not for the thicket-- RP: A thicket's no trick. Is it thick? CP: It's the thickest RP: The quickest is pick it apart with a stick-- CP: Yes, but even one prick-- It's my thing about blood RP: Well, it's sick! CP: It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves RP: Dwarves CP: Dwarves... RP: Dwarves are very upsetting Both: Not forgetting the tasks unachievable Mountains unscalable-- If it's conceivable But unavailable Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-- Agony! CP: Misery! RP: Woe! Both: Not to know what you miss CP: While they lie there for years-- RP: And you cry on their biers-- Both: What unbearable bliss! Agony, that can cut like a knife! Ah well, back to my wife...