[02:32.00]Did I abuse her
[02:32.00]Or show her disdain?
[02:32.00]Why does she run from me?
[02:32.00]If I should lose her,
[02:32.00]How shall I regain
[02:32.00]The heart she has won from me?
[02:32.00]Agony!
[02:32.00]Beyond power of speech,
[02:32.00]When the one thing you want
[02:32.00]Is the only thing out of your reach.
[02:32.00]High in her tower,
[02:32.00]She sits by the hour,
[02:32.00]Maintaining her hair.
[02:32.00]Blithe and becoming and frequently humming
[02:32.00]A lighthearted air:
[02:32.00]Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-
[02:32.00]Agony!
[02:32.00]Far more painful than yours,
[02:32.00]When you know she would go with you
[02:32.00]If there only were doors.
[02:32.00]Agony!
[02:32.00]Oh, the torture they teach!
[02:32.00]What's as intriguing-
[02:32.00]Or half so fatiguing-
[02:32.00]As what's out of reach?
[02:32.00]Am I not sensitive,
[02:32.00]Clever,
[02:32.00]Well-mannered,
[02:32.00]Considerate,
[02:32.00]Passionate,
[02:32.00]Charming,
[02:32.00]As kind as I'm handsome
[02:32.00]And heir to a throne?
[02:32.00]You are everything maidens could wish for!
[02:32.00]Then why no-?
[02:32.00]Do I know?
[02:32.00]The girl must be mad!
[02:32.00]You know nothing of madness
[02:32.00]Till you're climbing her hair
[02:32.00]And you see her up there
[02:32.00]AS you're nearing her,
[02:32.00]All the while hearing her:
[02:32.00]Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-
[02:32.00]Agony!
[02:32.00]Misery!
[02:32.00]Woe!
[02:32.00]Though it's different for each.
[02:32.00]Always ten steps behind-
[02:32.00]Always ten feet below-
[02:32.00]And she's just out of reach.
[02:32.00]Agony
[02:32.00]That can cut like a knife!
[02:32.00]I must have her to wife.