Текст песни Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

Coming back from the Bogart movie in the morning
In a country where time has turned back
You push through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Thinking through another crime
She appears like the sun in a flowing silk dress
Like a watercolor under the rain.
Don't ask for any explanation
She'll just tell you she joined
In the year of the cat.

She won't give you time for questions
With your hand in mine
And you will follow her until your sense of space
Will not disappear at all
Near the blue-tiled market stalls.
There will be a secret door through which she will lead you.
She will say: "Now it seems to me that my life
River flowing through
Year of the cat ".

Morning will come, and you will all be with her.
The bus and the tourists are gone
And you put your plans out of your mind and lose your ticket
So you have to stay.
Through the rest of the night the drum beat will last
In the rhythm of a newborn day.
You know that one day you'll have to leave her
But as long as you stay
In the year of the cat ...