Year of the Cat

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 watercolor 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

在一个像亨佛莱鲍嘉电影场景的清晨

在一个时光倒流的国度

你像彼得洛尔一样，悠闲的踱过人群

构思着一桩犯罪

她穿著丝质洋装，从阳光中走出来

像一幅雨中的水彩画

别想得到任何解释

她只会告诉你

她来自猫年

她不会给你时间发问

当她环抱着你的双臂

你跟着她

直到你完全失去方向感

沿着市集附近贴着蓝色磁砖的围墙

她引导你走进一扇暗门

"这些日子以来──"，她说

"我感到我的一生就像河流

流淌过整个猫年！"

她冷冷的注视着你

她的双眼发亮，如同海上的月光

她带着薄荷香味前来

你带着她

去找寻猫年里等待的是什么？

已经早上了，你仍然和她在一起

巴士和观光客都走光了

你放弃了选择，遗失了车票

所以你得留下

夜晚的鼓乐依然回荡

在崭新一天的节奏里

你很清楚你终究要离开她

但此刻，你决定要留在猫年