09 - Year Of The Cat

[01:07.34] On a morning from a Bogart movie

[01:11.06] In a country where they turn back time

[01:15.36] You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

[01:19.58] Contemplating a crime

[01:23.87] She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

[01:27.59] Like a watercolor in the rain

[01:32.17] Don't bother asking for explanations

[01:35.86] She'll just tell you that she came

[01:39.29] In the year of the cat

[01:56.55] She doesn't give you time for questions

[02:00.82] As she locks up your arm in hers

[02:04.46] And you follow 'til your sense of which direction

[02:08.49] Completely disappears

[02:13.03] By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls

[02:16.97] There's a hidden door she leads you to

[02:21.84] "These days," she says, "I feel my life

[02:24.66] Just like a river running through

[02:28.63] The year of the cat"

[02:45.58] While she looks at you so coolly

[02:49.31] And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

[02:53.49] She comes in incense and patchouli

[02:57.71] So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

[03:05.06] The year of the cat

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[04:29.61] Well morning comes and you're still with her

[04:33.34] And the bus and the tourists are gone

[04:37.60] And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket

[04:41.00] So you have to stay on

[04:45.29] But the drumbeat strains of the night remain

[04:49.02] In the rhythm of the newborn day

[04:53.81] You know sometime you're bound to leave her

[04:57.25] But for now, you're gonna stay

[05:00.62] In the year of the cat

[05:16.73] Mm, year of the cat