[COMPANY:]
September 3rd, 1975
The moment a blue fly takes flight
It pa**es a fruit stand and lands on a fig
As the new owner's taking a bite
One block away at an outdoor cafe
As the wind makes a table cloth dance
Even before the fly lands on a girl
The girl's getting sick in advance
Oooh
Down on a street a man holds a receipt
He's returning a ring to a store
Not two flights above him a boy fills a box
With his favorite gla** marble and old diecast car and a comic and coins from the war
Adds a watch from his father and closes the lid
Hide the box in a hole in the floor
[BOY:]
Where I keep it ten thousand times before
Where you'll never find it
[COMPANY:]
Ohhh
High on the breeze in a flying trapeze
The fly meets a girl in mid-air
And for one shining moment it feels like there's no one else there
The girl thinks she sees the fly smiling
[SUZANNE:]
Is that fly actually smiling?
Oh sh**!
[COMPANY:]
Ohhh
A girl saves a letter
A boy finds a photo
A man at the doctor is told he'll go blind
A promising poet rhymes purple with "shurple"
A man starts a painting then leaves it behind
Oh, everyone is falling as the fly comes into view
And everyone's connected though they may not know it's true
They form a trail of breadcrumbs
But what are they leading to?
[AMÉLIE :]
September 3rd, 1975
The moment a baby is born
Seven pound, seven ounce
Brown haired little girl
And just for a moment it's perfect
[MOM/DAD:]
I mean, right now it's actually... perfect
[COMPANY:]
Ohhh
The moment a blue fly takes flight
Oh, everyone is falling as their lives play out unplanned
And everyone's connected though they may not understand
That falling feels like flying (falling feels flying) [x5 overlapped]
[YOUNG AMÉLIE:]
Til the moment that you land
September 3rd, 1975
When all of these things came to be
[COMPANY:]
The ring she rejected
The news from the doctor
The face in the photo
The tablecloth dancing
The pen and the paintbrush
The feeling of flying
The trail of breadcrumbs that brought you
[YOUNG AMÉLIE:]
To me
[ALL:]
Me