[00:00.00] 作词 : Peter Wood/Al Stewart[00:01.00] 作曲 : Peter Wood/Al Stewart[01:05.61]On a morning from a Bogart movie[01:10.64]in a country where they turn back time[01:15.35]you go strolling through the crowd[01:17.47]like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime[01:22.70]She comes out of the sun in a silk dress[01:26.43]running like a watercolour in the rain[01:32.02]Don't bother asking for explanations[01:34.22]She'll just tell you that she came[01:38.35]in the year of the cat[01:40.01][01:55.83]She doesn't give you time for questions[02:00.11]as she locks up your arm in hers[02:04.67]and you follow till your sense[02:06.92]of which direction completely disappears[02:12.83]By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls[02:17.14]there's a hidden door she leads you to[02:21.72]these days, she says, I feel my life[02:24.90]just like a river running through[02:28.03]the year of the cat[02:32.95][02:45.23]Well, she looks at you so cooly[02:49.55]And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea[02:52.55]She comes in incense and patchouli[02:54.93]So you take her, to find what's waiting inside[03:04.52]The year of the cat[03:12.10][04:29.14]Well, morning comes and you're still with her[04:32.69]and the bus and the tourists are gone[04:35.45]and you've thrown away the choice[04:38.45]and lost your ticket[04:39.84]so you have to stay on[04:44.93]But the drum-beat strains of the night remain[04:47.30]in the rhythm of the new-born day[04:53.01]You know sometime you're bound to leave her[04:56.26]But for now you're going to stay[04:58.62]in the year of the cat[05:16.30]en~in the year of the cat[05:39.37]