Yellow Cat Lyrics

It's late December and the New Year's nev-er com-ing,
time pa*ses slowly in a two-room walk-up flat,
The sun is silent there's a cold rain's gonna come on,
No one to talk to but my lady's yellow cat.

Raindrops falling on the flowers in the window box,
Plastic roses that I planted yesterday.
I didn't think they'd die so soon but they're all withered now,
Seems like everything I touch turns out that way.

Chorus
Well, I guess I'll just go walking,
The cat's no Good for talking to,
He don't know what I'm saying
And the rain is always playing on my mind, on my mind.


Street lights drifting through the blinds that cover window panes
blending softy with the bare lights overhead.
Then together they run swiftly through my memory
An eerie image in a strange and empty bed.


The wind is whippin' up the papers in the street below
I got some books to read but it seems they've all been read
Clouds are crowded in a misty drifting sky above
I wish to hell I could remember what I said.

Repeat Chorus


One crystal wine gla*s on a table filled with scarlet stains
Stands alone and empty where there once were two
The jug is silent on the table by a broken plate
The wine is gone, my lady, and so, my love, are you.

Well, I guess I'll just go walking,
The cat's no Good for talking to,
He don't know what I'm saying
And the rain is always playing on my mind, on my mind, on my mind

John Denver - Rhymes & Reasons

Jun 2005

1. The Love Of The Common People
2. The Ballad Of Spiro Agnew
3. When I'm Sixty Four
4. The Ballad Of Richard Nixon
5. Yellow Cat
6. My Heart
7. My Old Man
8. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
9. Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life (Sugacity)
10. Rusty Green
11. Take Me To Tomorrow (Early Version)
12. Catch Another Butterfly
13. Daydreams
14. Circus
15. Rhymes And Reasons
16. Leaving On A Jet Plane