Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart

On a morning from a bogart movie
in a (1)______________ where they turn back time
you go strolling through the crowd like (2)__________ lorre
contemplating a crime
she (3)__________ out of the sun in a (4)________ (5)__________ running
like a (6)______________________ in the rain
don't (7)____________ asking for explanations
she'll (8)________ (9)________ you that she came
in the year of the cat.
She doesn't (10)________ you time for questions
as she locks up (11)________ arm in hers
and you (12)____________ 'till your sense of which direction
completely disappears
by the blue (13)__________ (14)__________ (15)________ the market stalls
there's a (16)____________ door she leads you to
these days, she says, i feel my life
just like a river running through
the (17)________ of the cat
She (18)__________ 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 (19)__________ and you're (20)__________ (21)________ her
and the bus and the (22)________________ are gone
and you've (23)____________ (24)________ the choice and lost your ticket
so you have to stay on
but the drum-beat (25)______________ of the night remain
in the rhythm of the new-born day
you (26)________ sometime you're bound to leave her
but for now you're (27)__________ to stay
in the year of the cat.

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