Year Of The Cat

Song Year Of The Cat
Artist Al Stewart
Album This Is... 1977

Lyrics

[01:08.19] On a morning from a Bogart movie
[01:11.81] In a country where they turn back time
[01:16.00] You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
[01:20.33] Contemplating a crime
[01:24.00] She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
[01:28.32] Like a watercolor in the rain
[01:32.06] Don't bother asking for explanations
[01:36.61] She'll just tell you that she came
[01:39.11] In the year of the cat
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[01:57.50] She doesn't give you time for questions
[02:01.06] As she locks up your arm in hers
[02:05.22] And you follow till your sense of which direction
[02:09.47] Completely disappears
[02:12.41] By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
[02:17.66] There's a hidden door she leads you to
[02:21.59] These days she says "I feel my life
[02:25.59] Just like a river running through"
[02:27.71] The year of the cat
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[02:46.23] Why she looks at you so coolly
[02:49.85] And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
[02:53.99] She comes in incense and patchouli
[02:57.88] So you take her to find what's waiting inside
[03:05.51] The year of the cat
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[04:29.29] Well morning comes and you're still with her
[04:33.42] And the bus and the tourists are gone
[04:37.61] And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
[04:41.80] So you have to stay on
[04:44.20]
[04:45.52] But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
[04:49.85] In the rhythm of the new-born day
[04:53.79] You know sometime you're bound to leave her
[04:57.90] But for now you're going to stay
[05:00.60] In the year of the cat
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[05:17.20] Year of the cat
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