Sitting - Cat Stevens - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Cat Stevens turned to spirituality as the source of inspiration for his 1972 soft-rock stunner "Sitting," searching for meaning over an earworm piano melody, temporarily putting down his guitar. "Oh, I'm on my way, I know I am / Somewhere not so far from here," he muses, before inflecting: "And if I make it to the waterside / I'll be sure to write you note or something." The British singer-songwriter conceived this existential song at a turning point in his life, just as he had begun to lean more into religion (he converted to Islam four years later and took the name Yusuf Islam) and meditation. Released as a single in 1972, the track fittingly opened his 1972 album Catch Bull at Four, which topped the US Billboard 200 as well as peaking at number one in Australia and Canada and vaulting to number two on the UK Albums Chart. With "Sitting," Cat Stevens offers a blast of optimism as he finds solace in his spiritual guide.