Agony (Reprise)

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've found a casket entirely of glass

No, it's unbreakable

Inside, don't ask it, a maiden alas

Just as unwakeable

What unmistakeable

Agony, is the way always hard

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 about dwarfs

Dwarves

Dwarfs

Dwarves are very upsetting

Not forgetting

The task's unachievable, mountains unscalable

If it's conceivable but unavailable

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