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Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

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The version with the piano solo in the beginning.

Lyrics:

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

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.

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Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

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  • Oh and I forgot to ...

    Oh and I forgot to say, these are REAL musicians!

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  • Amazing, utterly ...

    Amazing, utterly incredibly awesomely fantastic brilliant and beautiful. They make it all look so easy too!

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  • Brilliant intro and ...

    Brilliant intro and outro, also Al's singing is great.

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  • I LOVE the intro. I ...

    I LOVE the intro. I can't stop playing it!

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  • One of the most ...

    One of the most awesome videos of all time.

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  • Eddie Van Halen on ...

    Eddie Van Halen on piano

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  • Reminds me of my ...

    Reminds me of my Sophomore year in high school. Great song!!!

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  • God speaks and he ...

    God speaks and he uses whatever means to speak as in this case. Tonight I heard my husband play similar notes on his piano. But I heard " Year of the Cat" it's been 20 yrs. since I heard this song. My name is Kattia - Kat for short.

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  • This song is the ...

    This song is the perfect love story......as he is singing, in my mind, I imagine the whole story like a scene from a movie.

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  • Oh my God!!! so ...

    Oh my God!!! so many good memories...
    thanks a lot for posting this song.

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  • I do love this song ...

    I do love this song, one of my all-time favs. And it is one of the best ever; combining intriguing lyrics with piano and sax solos; truly outstanding! However, the greatest song ever is probably Don McLean's American Pie. Well, at least in the last 50 years or so.
    Peace out....

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  • Got cha that makes ...

    Got cha that makes more sense

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  • I know a good beat ...

    I know a good beat when I hear it. If I can masturbate to it....it's SWEET!!!

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  • what the F**k do ...

    what the F**k do you know about music punk

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  • eat my asssss!!!

    eat my asssss!!!

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