[GEORGETTE, spoken]
Tuesday September 28, 1997. The clock ticks

[JOSEPH, spoken]
It's exactly 2 PM

[SUZANNE, spoken]
No sign of Nino

[AMÉLIE]
Nino is late
His watch has probably stopped
And if his watch has stopped he had to get it fixed
Fixed at the shop
That sits across the tracks
The same high-voltage tracks of Europe's fastest train

Lost in thought
Nino's half-way 'cross the railroad tracks
The instant that the train impacts and
Current flows
Through Nino's arteries which stops his heart

[AMÉLIE AND Chorus]
While train carts tear his limbs apart and-

[SUZANNE, GINA & GEORGETTE (AMÉLIE)]
Nino survives ([gasp])
They even find his watch (They do?)
Placed back upon his wrist by a nurse named Nora

[HIPOLITO AND JOSEPH]
She gets him to walk
She bathes him with a sponge
Shе helps him to his knee when he proposеs

[AMÉLIE]
Who has time for a boy like that?
For a boy who doesn't know
How to tell time
How to tell time
How to tell