[Amélie rubs the rim of a wine glass making it hum.]

[NARRATOR (JOSEPH), spoken]
Five years later Amélie is a waitress in a restaurant-cafe in Montmartre

[ENSEMBLE]
This is the sound of going round in circles

[NARRATOR (HIPOLITO), spoken]
[Tears off a calendar sheet]
August 31st, 1997. In 48 hours, Amélie Poulain’s fate will take an unexpected turn

[ENSEMBLE]
This is the sound of going round in circles

[NARRATOR (JOSEPH), spoken]
But at the moment she has no idea...

[ENSEMBLE & AMÉLIE]
This is the sound of going around...

[SUZANNE, spoken]
Amélie, will you change the menu du jour, sil-vous-plait?

[AMÉLIE]
Suzanne used to work in the circus
Before she bought the two windmills cafe
After a trapeze catastrophe
That left her limping to this day
She pours a drink for Hipolito
Who's always working at the bar
He's written two dozen novels
Though he's not sold a single word so far

[SUZANNE & HIPOLITO]
Each day I'm in and out of that door around a circle that I went around the day before

[STAFF & PATRONS]
Around, around
Around, around
Around, around
[AMÉLIE]
This is their favourite sound

[STAFF & PATRONS]
Around, around, around

[AMÉLIE]
That's gina reading a letter
Sent by her dear late husband who
One day flew off with his receptionist
And their plane crashed into peru
She has no feelings for joseph
But he's a hard man to convince
They went on one date a year ago
And now he’s been here ever since

[STAFF & PATRONS]
Each day we’re in and out of that door

[AMÉLIE]
Their favourite sound

[ENSEMBLE]
Around a circle that we went around the year before

[AMÉLIE]
Georgette's the cafe tobacconist
When she's not throwing out her back
She's selling chocolates and cigarettes
Waiting for her next asthma attack
She's always worried for Philomene due to her dangerous career
Though every month she flies off again
Somehow she always ends up here
[STAFF & PATRONS]
Each day we're in and out of that door
Around a circle that we went around
The year before

[AMÉLIE & ENSEMBLE]
Around around
Around around
Around around
Around around

[AMÉLIE]
This is their favourite sound

[ENSEMBLE]
Around around
Around

[AMÉLIE]
Around around
Around

[AMÉLIE]
AROUND

[AMÉLIE & ENSEMBLE]
Around around
Around

[AMÉLIE]
Around

[AMÉLIE & ENSEMBLE]
Around around
Around

[ENSEMBLE]
Around around around
This is our favourite sound

Around around
Around around
Around around
Around around
Around

Around!

[Georgette sneezes.]

[AMÉLIE]
And that's the only way to tell the time
Inside the two windmills cafe