Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart

On a (1)______________ from a bogart movie
in a (2)______________ 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 (3)________ 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 (4)________ 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 (5)________ she leads you to
these days, she says, i feel my life
just like a river running through
the year of the cat
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 (6)________ 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 (7)________ 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 sometime you're (8)__________ to leave her
but for now you're (9)__________ to stay
in the year of the cat.

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