agony reprise

Caminhos Da Floresta

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 ve 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 hard
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 about dwarfs
Dwarves
Dwarfs
Dwarves are very upsetting
Not forgetting
The task s unachievable, mountains unscalable
If it s conceivable but unavailable
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