Into The Woods - Agony Ii Lyrics - Broadways

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 mor keen, 

When the one thing you want 

Is a thing that you've not even seen. 

RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE 

I found a casket 

Entirely of glass- 

No, it's unbreakable. 

Inside- don't ask it- 

A maiden, alas, 

Just as unwakable- 

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 you thing with dwarves. 

RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE 

Dwarfs. 

CINDERELLA'S PRINCE 

Dwarfs... 

RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE 

Dwarfs are every upsetting. 

BOTH 

Not forgetting 

The tasks unacheivable, 

Mountains unscalable- 

If it's conceivable 

But unavailable, 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- 

Agony! 

CINDERELLA'S PRINCE 

Misery! 

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...