Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok lyrics

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Bangkok, oriental setting

But the city don't know what the city is gettin'

The Creme-De-La-Creme of the chess world

In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies, doesn't seem a minute

Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boards in it

All changed, don't you know that when you

Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings

Or.... or this place!

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky, then the god's a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity

To be looking at the board

not looking at the city

Whattaya mean?!

You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get tied, you're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be to careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siam's gonna be the witness

To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

This grips me more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddha

Nut thank god I'm only watching the game, controlling it

I don't see you guys raging

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you

But the queens we use would not excite you

So, you better go back to your bars, your temples

Your massage parlors

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

A little flesh, a little history

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble

Not much between despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Can't be to careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me