Agony (Reprise) [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

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Paul Gemignani is an award-winning American musical director with a career on Broadway and West End theatre spanning over thirty years. more »

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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

I found a casket
Entirely of glass-
No, it's unbreakable
Inside-don't ask it-
A maiden, alas
Just as unwakeable

What unmistakable
Agony!
Is the way always barred?

She has skin white as snow-

Did you learn her name?

No
There's a dwarf standing guard

Agony
Such that princes must weep!
Always in thrall most
To anything almost
Or something asleep

If it were not for the thicket-

A thicket's no trick
Is it thick?

It's the thickest

The quickest
Is pick it
Apart with a stick-

Yes, but even one prick-
It's my thing about blood

Well, it's sick!

It's no sicker
Than your thing with dwarves!

Dwarfs

Dwarfs...

Dwarfs are very upsetting

Not forgetting
The tasks unachievable
Mountains unscalable-
If it's conceivable
But unavailable
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-
Agony!

Misery!

Woe!

Not to know what you miss

While they lie there for years-

And you cry on their biers-

What unbearable bliss!

Agony
That can cut like a knife!
Ah well, back to my wife...

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