Murray Head's One Night In Bangkok

 

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One Night In Bangkok

Murray Head

Bangkok

Oriental city
And the city don't know

That the city is getting
The creme de la crème

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 boys in it
All change

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 the 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

Wait a minute

Ya seen one crowded

Polluted

Stinking town

Tea

Girls

Warm

Sweet

Sweet
Some are set up

In the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd

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 too 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 a reclining Buddha
And thank God

I'm only watching the game

Controlling it
I don't see you guys rating
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 the 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 a hard man humble
Not much between despair

And ecstasy
One night in Bangkok

And the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful

With your company
I can feel the devil

Walking next to me

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