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Agony (Reprise) - Stephen Sondheim

Agony (Reprise)

Stephen Sondheim

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Song Introduction

"Agony (Reprise)" is a song from Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical **"Into the Woods."** In this number, characters express their frustrations and desires as their individual quests intersect. The reprise version highlights the ongoing struggles and emotional turmoil they face as the story progresses. Known for Sondheim's intricate lyrics and compelling melodies, "Agony (Reprise)" encapsulates the complexity of human emotions within the narrative, showcasing the characters' inner conflicts and their pursuit of personal goals amidst intertwined destinies.

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Lyric

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 unmistakeable

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 enthrowmost 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

Dwarves? dwarves!

Dwarves are very upsetting

Not forgetting the task unachievable, mountains unschathable

If it's conceivable but unavailabe

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 beers

What unbearable bliss

Agony

That can cut like a knife

Ah, well, back to my wife

- It's already the end -