Year Of The Cat

Al Stewart

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1. On a morning from a Bogart movie
   in a country where they turned back time
   you go strolling through the crowd like
   Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
   
   She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
   running like a water color in the rain.
   Don't bother asking for explanations.
   She'll just tell you that she came
   in the Year of the Cat.

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2. She doesn't give you time for questions
   as she locks up you arm in hers.
   And you follow 'til your sense of
   which direction completely disappears.
   
   By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
   there's a hidden door she leads you to.
   "These days," she says, "I feel my life just
   like a river running through
   the Year of the Cat."

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*: Well she looks at you so cooly
   and her eyes shine like the moon
   in the sea.
   She comes in incense and pathchouli
   so you take her to find what's
   waiting inside
   the Year of the Cat.

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3. Well morning comes and you're still with her
   and the bus and the tourists are gone.
   And you've thrown away your choice and
   lost your ticket so you have to stay on.
   
   But the drumbeat strains of the night
   remain in the rhythm of the newborn day.
   You know sometime you're bound to leave her
   but for now you're gonna stay
   in the Year of the Cat.

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