Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

[00:39.49] Bangkok, Oriental City [00:41.46] But the city don't know what the city is getting [00:43.66] The creme de la creme of the chess world [00:45.53] In a show with everything but Yul Brenner [00:53.24] Time flies, doesn't seem a minute [00:54.94] Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boards in it [00:57.52] All changed, don't you know that when you [00:59.47] Play at this level there's no ordinary venue [01:02.68] It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings [01:05.90] Or, or this place [01:08.34] One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster [01:12.80] The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free [01:17.17] You'll find a god in every golden cloister [01:21.66] And if you're lucky, then the god's a she [01:25.87] I can feel an angel sliding up to me [01:29.37] One town's very like another [01:31.03] When your head's down over your pieces, brother [01:33.30] (It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity [01:35.33] To be looking at the board [01:36.60] Not looking at the city) [01:37.92] Whattaya mean? [01:39.53] You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town [01:42.74] (Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet [01:44.64] Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite) [01:46.91] Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist [01:48.76] Whose every move's among the purest [01:52.38] I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine [01:57.86] One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble [02:02.69] Not much between despair and ecstasy [02:06.87] One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble [02:11.45] Can't be too careful with your company [02:15.38] I can feel the Devil walking next to me [02:19.93] [02:38.85] Siam's gonna be the witness [02:40.62] To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness [02:43.32] This grips me more than would a muddy old river [02:46.08] Or reclining Buddha [02:48.17] Thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it [02:52.34] I don't see you guys raging [02:54.26] The kind of mating I'm contemplating [02:56.05] I'd let you watch, I would invite you [02:58.24] But the queens we use would not excite you [03:01.60] So, you better go back to your bars, your temples [03:04.76] Your massage parlors [03:07.71] One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster [03:11.77] The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free [03:16.83] You'll find a god in every golden cloister [03:20.78] A little flesh, a little history [03:24.91] I can feel an angel sliding up to me [03:28.74] One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble [03:33.22] Not much between despair and ecstasy [03:37.41] One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble [03:42.06] Can't be too careful with your company [03:45.96] I can feel the Devil walking next to me [03:51.45]