Al Stewart Year Of The Cat Lyrics

Year Of The Cat Lyrics

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn 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 watercolour
in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that
she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for
questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till 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

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon
in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find
what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and
you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've
thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But
the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born
day
You know sometimes you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going
to stay
In the year of the cat