Old movie lovers

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I was reading the lyrics of a song that I don't particularly care for called "Year of the Cat". Heard it a million times in my life, but caught some of the lyrics on the radio the other day and maybe the first time I ever actually listened to the words. Anyway, it sounded to me like it was written with old movies in mind. So I thought I'd post for you old movie lovers. And who the hell is Peter Lorre???
Anyway, here's the lyrics

"Year of the Cat"
Song by Al Stewart

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

While 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 your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the newborn day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

Year of the cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Etdpt5L-fg

[LennG]

Great I never really listened to the words.

Here is another that I have always loved as it always reminded me of thoise 'older' movies

Bette Davis Eyes

Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips, a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She got Bette Davis eyes

She'll turn the music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand-off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on a throne
She got Bette Davis eyes

She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come up blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you
When she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please you
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you
When she snows you
'Cause she knows you
She's got Bette Davis eyes


https://youtu.be/utNJl__55P0

[Jolly Blue Giant]

Unlike "The Year of the Cat", I really like the song "Bette Davis Eyes"...great tune