Stephen Sondheim
Multitudes of Amys
[ROBERT]
Multitudes of Amys
Crowd the streets below
Avenues of Amys
Officefuls of Amys
Everywhere I go
Wonder what it means
Ho-ho, I wonder what it means
I see them waiting for the lights
Running for the bus
Milling in the stores
And hailing cabs
And disappearing through revolving doors
Multitudes of Amys
Everywhere I look
Sentences of Amys
Paragraphs of Amys
Filling every book
Wonder if it means I've gone to pieces
Every other word I speak is something she says
[STEPHEN SONDHEIM, spoken]
Well, we changed the plot, so "Multitudes of Amys" doesn't work. Or it didn't work. So we needed another ending. And I decided that what I would do is write a song which was Bobby's assessment of the marriages he's seen, which he was disillusioned with. And he sang a song called "Happily Every After."