Halfway [UK Version] lyrics

AMÉLIE:

In my mother's schoolhouse

I would sit at the kitchen table

And listen to her teach geometry

She taught me about distance

She taught a lesson about a boat that is sailing the sea

Trying to get from point A to B

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

So the little boat's travelling at full sail

And it's trying to reach the shore

But whenever the boat gets halfway there

There is always halfway more

Take half of half

And half of that

And on and on and so

AMÉLIE:

In my mother's schoolhouse

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

There is always halfway to go

AMÉLIE:

At the kitchen table

I once folded a paper boat

And floated it down the tabletop

Halfway to my mother

It sailed into her coffee cup

Where she crumpled it up

Threw it away

And told me to stop

So the little boat's trying to get to her

But the table is deep and wide

The lesson I learned from my mother

Was to see the great divide

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

Take half of half

And half of that

And on and on and so

AMÉLIE:

At the kitchen table

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

There was always halfway to go

To go

AMÉLIE:

Little boat, big ocean

I'm a girl with a copper spyglass

Who prays that today she will spot her shore

All at once a lighthouse

All at once through the copper spyglass

A light telling me to learn in on the oar

I start to row

But before I can get anywhere

From point A to point B

I am at the kitchen table

Where I'll always be at sea

Take half of half

And half of that

No matter where I row

AMANDINE:

Little boat big ocean

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

Little boat big ocean

AMANDINE:

There is always halfway to go

AMÉLIE & AMANDINE:

To go

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