Act II: 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 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 unscaleable
If it's conceivable but unavailable
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