Agony: Reprise

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
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

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

[BOTH]
What unmistakable agony!
Is the way always barred?

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
She has skin white as snow--

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Did you learn her name?

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
No, there's a dwarf standing guard

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

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
If it were not for the thicket--

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
A thicket's no trick. Is it thick?

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
It's the thickest

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
The quickest is pick it apart with a stick--

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Yes, but even one prick--
It's my thing about blood

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Well, it's sick!

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Dwarves

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Dwarves...

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Dwarves are very upsetting

[BOTH]
Not forgetting the task's unachievable
Mountains unscalable--
If it's conceivable
But unavailable
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah--
Agony!

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Misery!

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Woe!

[BOTH]
Not to know what you miss

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
While they lie there for years--

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
And you cry on their biers--

[BOTH]
What unbearable bliss!
Agony, that can cut like a knife!
Ah well, back to my wife...