On a morning from a Bogart movie
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In a country where they turn back time
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You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
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Contemplating a crime
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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
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Like a watercolour in the rain
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Don't bother asking for explanations
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She'll just tell you that she came
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In the year of the cat
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She doesn't give you time for questions
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As she locks up your arm in hers
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And you follow till your sense of which direction
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Completely disappears
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By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
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There's a hidden door she leads you to
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These days, she says, I feel my life
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Just like a river running through
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The year of the cat
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[Instrumental Interlude]
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Well morning comes and you're still with her
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And the bus and the tourists are gone
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And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
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So you have to stay on
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But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
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In the rhythm of the new-born day
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You know sometime you're bound to leave her
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But for now you're going to stay
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In the year of the cat
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Year Of The Cat
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| Al Stewart |
