Year of the cat - Al Stewart's

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 sometime you're bound to leave her,
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat...

mmm year of cat...