The Late Nino Quincampoix [UK Version] lyrics

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 & 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 & JOSEPH:

She gets him to walk

Shе bathes him with a sponge

She hеlps him to his knee when he proposes

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