Goodbye, Amélie

[ELTON JOHN]

Amélie

Goodbye, girl

Amélie

I give you your wings

Fly so free

And join the angel choir, girl

And teach them to sing

Amélie

Beats me, girl

Why you had to bid this planet adieu

Let me be the first to say

Merci, girl

That means, "Thank you!"

We're an ocean of rowboats

You decided to save

Lifting us to the shoreline

Like a wave

When your harp and your halo hit the sky

Look down, we'll be waving goodbye!

Amélie

Our flashlight

How we see when the power blows

Shine on me like a thousand Zippos

No! A zillion Zippos!

Half-blind a blizzard

On a slippery slope

You are up at the summit

With a rope

When your harp and your halo hit the sky

Look down, we'll be waving goodbye!

[ANGELS]

Oh, where will we go?

Oh, who will appease us?

You're nicer than Oprah, bigger than Jesus!

[ELTON JOHN] + (ANGELS)

Oprah! (And Jesus)

And you get a car!

And you get a car! (We shout from the hills)

Yeah!

We shout!

[ANGELS]

We shout from the hills

We shout from a mesa

You’re half Santa Claus

Half Mother Teresa

[AMÉLIE] + (ELTON JOHN)

(Amélie) Saving orphans!

(Amélie) Stopping fires!

(Amélie) I've got the high notes

And I'm singing with the choir!

Yeah!

[ELTON JOHN]

You're perfect!

Yeah!

[ANGELS]

Yeah!

[ELTON JOHN]

Yeah!

[ANGELS]

Yeah!

[ELTON JOHN]

Yeah!

[ANGELS]

Yeah!

[ELTON JOHN]

YEAH!!

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