"Agony (Reprise)" lyrics
Gavin Creel & Joshua Henry Lyrics
(from "Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording)" soundtrack)
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...
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...
