[INTRO] C D Em 3x Am D [Verse] C Bm Em On a morning from a Bogart movie C Bm Em in a country where they turned back time C Bm Em you go strolling through the crowd like Am D Peter Lorre contemplating a crime. C Bm Em She comes out of the sun in a silk dress B C running like a water color in the rain. B Em Don't bother asking for explanations. Am D She'll just tell you that she came in the Year of the Cat. [INSTRUMENTAL] C D Em 3x Am D [Verse] C Bm Em She doesn't give you time for questions C Bm Em as she locks up you arm in hers. C Bm Em And you follow 'til your sense of Am D which direction completely disappears. C Bm Em By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls B C there's a hidden door she leads you to. B Em "These days," she says, "I feel my life just Am D like a river running through the Year of the Cat." [INSTRUMENTAL] C D Em 3x Am D [BRIDGE] (lead-in: D instead of D7) B C Well she looks at you so cooly G D and her eyes shine like the moon in the sea. B C She comes in incense and pathchouli G F so you take her to find what's C D waiting inside the Year of the Cat. [INSTRUMENTAL] C D Em 3x Am D [Verse] C Bm Em Well morning comes and you're still with her C Bm Em and the bus and the tourists are gone. C Bm Em And you've thrown away your choice and Am D lost your ticket so you have to stay on. C Bm Em But the drumbeat strains of the night B C remain in the rhythm of the newborn day. B Em You know sometime you're bound to leave her Am D but for now you're gonna stay in the Year of the Cat. [INSTRUMENTAL] C D Em 3x Am D
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