One Night in Bangkok / Murray Head

One Night in Bangkok / Murray Head

 

(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)

  Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
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 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)

Whaddya mean?
Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

(Tea girls warm and sweet, warm, 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 Reclining Buddha

But 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 slidin' 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)