Year Of The Cat (2001 Remastered Version)-Al Stewart

[00:15.39]Year of the Cat [00:23.39] [00:31.55]artist:Al Stewart [00:47.38] [01:05.61]On a morning from a Bogart movie [01:10.64]in a country where they turn back time [01:15.35]you go strolling through the crowd [01:17.47]like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime [01:22.70]She comes out of the sun in a silk dress [01:26.43]running like a watercolour in the rain [01:32.02]Don't bother asking for explanations [01:34.22]She'll just tell you that she came [01:38.35]in the year of the cat [01:40.01] [01:55.83]She doesn't give you time for questions [02:00.11]as she locks up your arm in hers [02:04.67]and you follow till your sense [02:06.92]of which direction completely disappears [02:12.83]By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls [02:17.14]there's a hidden door she leads you to [02:21.72]these days, she says, I feel my life [02:24.90]just like a river running through [02:28.03]the year of the cat [02:32.95] [02:45.23]Well, she looks at you so cooly [02:49.55]And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea [02:52.55]She comes in incense and patchouli [02:54.93]So you take her, to find what's waiting inside [03:04.52]The year of the cat [03:12.10] [04:29.14]Well, morning comes and you're still with her [04:32.69]and the bus and the tourists are gone [04:35.45]and you've thrown away the choice [04:38.45]and lost your ticket [04:39.84]so you have to stay on [04:44.93]But the drum-beat strains of the night remain [04:47.30]in the rhythm of the new-born day [04:53.01]You know sometime you're bound to leave her [04:56.26]But for now you're going to stay [04:58.62]in the year of the cat [05:16.30]en~in the year of the cat [05:39.37]