How Do You Measure a Marriage? - Lyric

One of the last songs we wrote for Regretting is the penultimate song in the show:
How Do You Measure a Marriage?
In the song, Anne considers how Clay’s revelation that he’s gay changes the way she views their years together.

The music for the intro is taken from Blind Date.

Here’s the lyric:

Once again
I’m in a lifetime movie.
Not a movie I’ve seen.
It turns out
Rom-com flicks are hooey.
Lots of shit with a sheen.
So what to do?
Do I just say, “Phooey?”
Two Stus?
What does it mean?
Must I go back, reconsider, revise?
Reassess the past, but with different eyes?

How do you measure a marriage?
What’s a success? What’s a fail?
Is it merely a matter of if you’re together in the end?
How do you measure a marriage?
Where is the magical scale?

Count the times you made love,
or the years that you didn’t?
The days spent together
or nights spent apart?
Count the kids?
Count the cars?
What you had at the end,
Or had at the start?

How do you sum up a lifetime?
Capture the truth or the tale?
We lived what we lived,
It can’t be undone,
And by any measure
We had a good run.