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'The year of the cat'? really? depressing as hell.
Happy? try 'Come on Eileen' Dexy's Midnite runners
or 'You're the one that I want' from Grease.
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I don't know how you get depressing out of The Year Of The Cat.
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turned 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
Ask she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'til your sense of direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls of 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 coolly
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
(perfect musical rendition of passionate sex)
When morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your 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 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
(saxophone indicates much more humping with a cat meowing in the background)
I can't think of anything depressing in that song. I wish it happened to me.
Personally, I like On The Border the best on that album, but it doesn't really fit the OP's request. Since it's about smuggling arms to a revolution, maybe it is a happy song here.
Maybe some Van Morrison