2023 West End Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends - Agony Lyrics
(Cut from Into the Woods)
Did I abuse her Or show her disdain? Why does she run from me? If I should lose her, How shall I regain The heart she has won from me?
Agony! Beyond power of speech, When the one thing you want Is the only thing out of your reach.
High in her tower, She sits by the hour, Maintaining her hair. Blithe and becoming and frequently humming A lighthearted air: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-
Agony! Far more painful than yours, When you know she would go with you If there only were doors.
Agony! Oh, the torture they teach!
What's as intriguing-
Or half so fatiguing-
As what's out of reach?
Am I not sensitive, Clever, Well-mannered, Considerate, Passionate, Charming, As kind as I'm handsome And heir to a throne?
You are everything maidens could wish for!
Then why no-?
Do I know?
The girl must be mad!
You know nothing of madness Till you're climbing her hair And you see her up there AS you're nearing her, All the while hearing her: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-
Agony!
Misery!
Woe!
Though it's different for each.
Always ten steps behind-
Always ten feet below-
And she's just out of reach. Agony That can cut like a knife!
I must have her to wife.
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends Songs Lyrics
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends Opening / Side By Side Introduction Company The Little Things You Do Together You Could Drive a Person Crazy Live Alone and Like It Loving You Getting Married Today Into the Woods Agony I Know Things Now Hello Little Girl Children Will Listen Send In the Clowns The Ballad of Sweeney Todd The Worst Pies in London My Friends Pretty Women A Little Priest The Ladies Who Lunch Sunday Tonight Quintet Broadway Baby Everybody Ought to Have a Maid You Gotta Get a Gimmick Waiting for the Girls Upstairs I'm Still Here Could I Leave You? Everything's Coming Up Roses The Boy From Losing My Mind Not a Day Goes By Being Alive Old Friends Side By Side By Side Our Time Love is in the Air
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