Correction Lyrics Agony (Reprise) by Stephen Sondheim

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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 gla**—
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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