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Agony
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Stephen Sondheim
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Did I abuse her or show her disdain
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Why does she run from me
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If I should lose her how shall I regain
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The heart she has won from me
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Agony, beyond power of speech
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When the one thing you want
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Is the only thing out of your reach
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High in her tower she sits by the hour
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Maintaining her hair
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Blithe and becoming and frequently humming
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A light-hearted air
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Ah
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Agony, far more painful than yours
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When you know she would go with you
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If there only were doors
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Agony, all the torture they teach
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What's as intruiging or half so fatiguing
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As what's out of reach
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Am I not sensitive, clever
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Well-mannered, considerate
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Passionate, charming
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As kind as I'm handsome
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And heir to a throne?
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You are everything maidens could wish for
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Then why no
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Do I know?
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The girl must be mad
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You know nothing of madness
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'Til you're climbing her hair
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And you see her up there as you're nearing her
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And all the while hearing her
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Ah
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Agony, misery, though it's different for each
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Always ten steps behind, always ten steps below
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And she's just out of reach
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Agony, that can cut like a knife
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I must have her to wife
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High in a tower like yours was but higher
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A beauty asleep
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All 'round the tower a thicket of briar
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A hundred feet deep
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Agony, no frustration more keen
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When the one thing you want
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Is a thing that you've not even seen
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I've found a casket entirely of glass
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No, it's unbreakable
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Inside, don't ask it, a maiden alas
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Just as unwakeable
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What unmistakeable
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Agony, is the way always hard
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She has skin white as snow
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Did you learn her name, no
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There's a dwarf standing guard
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Agony such that princes must weep
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Always in thrall 'most to anything almost
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Or something asleep
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If it were not for the thicket
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A thicket's no trick, is it thick
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It's the thickest
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The quickest is pick it apart with a stick
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Yes but even one prick, it's my thing about blood
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Well it's sick
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It's no sicker than your thing about dwarfs
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Dwarves
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Dwarfs
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Dwarves are very upsetting
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Not forgetting
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The task's unachievable, mountains unscalable
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If it's conceivable but unavailable
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Ah
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Agony, misery, woe not to know what you miss
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While they lie there for years
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And you cry on their biers
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What unbearable bliss
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Agony that can cut like a knife
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Ah well, back to my wife
Act I: Agony
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