Post Mortem lyrics

JOSEPH:

A service was held

The next Sunday at nine

On a mild yet overcast day

GEORGETTE:

Three neighbours were there

GINA & GEORGETTE:

Plus a cousin from ten miles away

BLIND BEGGAR, GINA, JOSEPH, HIPOLITO, GEORGETTE:

And with her father taking the urn in his hand

BLIND BEGGAR & GEORGETTE:

And a glade of wine all to herself

ENSEMBLE:

Oh oh o-o-o-oh

AMÉLIE:

Mama was interred on the shelf

(Raphael is placing the urn with the ashes next to a Garden Gnome outside in the garden.)

AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE:

Salut Papa, what’s that?

RAPHAEL:

A mausoleum for your Maman’s ashes

AMÉLIE as YOUNG AMÉLIE:

A gnome?

RAPHAEL:

Maman hated it, so I will always think of her when I see it

ENSEMBLE:

Oh oh oh oooh

Eleven years later and all that she knew

Was that times for dreamers were hard

With Papa growing distant t

And a garden gnome keeping guard

And so she packed up her baggage

And all of her bags

And some cash she had saved in a drawer

And oh oh oh oh oh oh

RAPHAEL:

She carried it straight out the door

ENSEMBLE:

Oh oh oh oh o-oh

AMÉLIE:

Au revoir, Papa!

ENSEMBLE:

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh o-oho-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?

• Artist:Amélie (musical)
• Album:Amélie (Original London Cast Recording)