[Intro]
 
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[Verse]
 
     
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Em
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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 colour 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...
 
[Verse]
 
    
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She doesn't give you time for questions
       
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As she locks up your 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...
 
 
[Bridge]
 
         
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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 waiting inside
                 
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The Year of the Cat...
 
 
(ACOUSTIC BREAK)  (SEE BELOW)
 
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[Lead] (SEE BELOW)
 
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[Verse]
 
     
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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 remain
       
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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...
 
 
(ACOUSTIC LEAD 1)
 
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