Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart

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 (1)____________ 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 (2)__________ 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 (3)__________ running through
the year of the cat
She (4)__________ at you so cooly
and her eyes (5)__________ (6)________ the moon in the sea
she (7)__________ 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 (8)__________ 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 (9)________ sometime you're bound to leave her
but for now you're going to stay
in the year of the cat.

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