Key: E
Introduction: D Em Am7
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On a morning from a Bogart movie
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in a country where they turned back time
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you go strolling through the crowd like
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Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
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running like a water color in the rain.
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Don't bother asking for explanations.
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She'll just tell you that she came
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in the Year of the Cat.
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She doesn't give you time for questions
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as she locks up you arm in hers.
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And you follow 'til your sense of
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which direction completely disappears.
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By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
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there's a hidden door she leads you to.
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"These days," she says, "I feel my life just
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like a river running through
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the Year of the Cat.
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Well she looks at you so cooly
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and her eyes shine like the moon
in the sea.
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She comes in incense and pathchouli
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so you take her to find what's
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waiting inside
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the Year of the Cat.
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Well morning comes and you're still with her
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and the bus and the tourists are gone.
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And you've thrown away your choice and
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lost your ticket so you have to stay on.
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But the drumbeat strains of the night
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remain in the rhythm of the newborn day.
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You know sometime you're bound to leave her
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but for now you're gonna stay
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in the Year of the Cat.
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in the Year of the Cat.