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Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok lyrics
The american:
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 boards 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!

Company:
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

The american:
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother

Company:
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

The american:
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town...

Company:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

The american:
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

Company:
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

The american:
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

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 parlours

Company:
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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Songwriters: Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus, Tim Rice
One Night In Bangkok lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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    Some focus on the game of chess and miss out on thai culture, but sarcastically downplay the city as dangerous by making a hard man hunble and devils walking next to me, also as polluted, stinking, and reclining buddhas. The cerebral fitness means the brain power of winning at chess. With the prostitution and the dangerousness of the city, it is the ectasy and despair the songs speak of or drugs and the dangerousness of buying drugs. But, the tourists say their moves are pure, meaning the chess players are just there for the game and nothing else.
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