[NINO]
September third nineteen seventy-five
The moment a blue fly takes flight

[NINO & LUCIEN]
It passes a fruit stand and lands on a fig
As the new owner’s taking a bite

[HIPOLITO]
One block away at an outdoor café
As the wind makes the tablecloth dance

[GEORGETTE]
Even before the fly lands on a girl
The girl’s getting sick in advance

[Georgette sneezes]

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh

[JOSEPH & GEORGETTE]
Down on the street a man holds a receipt

[JOSEPH]
He’s returning a ring to a store

[JOSEPH & BRETODEAU]
Four flights above him a boy fills a box

[BRETODEAU]
With his favorite glass marble
An old diecast car
And a comic and coins from the war

[JOSEPH & BRETODEAU]
Adds a watch from his father
And closes the lid
[JOSEPH]
Hides the box in a hole in the floor

[BRETODEAU]
Where I’ve hidden it ten thousand times before

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh

[BRETODEAU]
Where you’ll never find it

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh o-oho-oh oh

[SUZANNE & NINO]
High on the breeze near a flying trapeze
The fly meets a girl in midair
And for one shining moment
It feels like there’s no one else there

[NINO]
The girl thinks she sees the fly smiling

[SUZANNE]
Is that fly actually smiling?
[Suzanne realizes she is falling]

[SUZANNE, spoken]
Oh merde!

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh

[GINA]
A girl leaves her boyfrined

[NINO]
A boy finds a photo

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, o-oh

[BLIND BEGGAR]
A man at the doctor
Is told he’ll go blind

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh

[HIPOLITO]
A promising poet rhymes “purple” with

[HIPOLITO, spoken]
Merde!

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, o-oh

[DUFAYEL]
A man starts a painting then leaves it behind

[ENSEMBLE]
O-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 is revealed and walks forward to skip a stone.]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Amélie eats raspberries off her fingertips]

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 like flying
Falling feels like flying
Falling feels like flying
Falling feels like flying

[AMÉLIE]
'Till the moment that you land