Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart

On a morning (1)________ a bogart movie
in a country where they (2)________ back time
you go strolling through the crowd like peter lorre
contemplating a crime
she comes out of the sun in a (3)________ (4)__________ 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 (5)________ you time for questions
as she (6)__________ up your arm in hers
and you (7)____________ 'till (8)________ sense of (9)__________ direction
completely disappears
by the blue tiled walls near the (10)____________ stalls
there's a (11)____________ door she (12)__________ you to
these days, she says, i (13)________ my life
just like a river running through
the (14)________ of the cat
She looks at you so cooly
and her (15)________ shine like the (16)________ in the sea
she (17)__________ in incense and patchouli
so you take her, to find what's waiting inside
the year of the cat.
Well (18)______________ comes and you're still with her
and the bus and the tourists are gone
and you've thrown away the (19)____________ and lost your ticket
so you (20)________ to stay on
but the drum-beat (21)______________ of the (22)__________ remain
in the rhythm of the new-born day
you know sometime you're bound to (23)__________ her
but for now you're going to stay
in the year of the cat.

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