JUEVES - LYRICS ("One night in Bangkok - Murray Head")

- "One night in Bangkok - Murray Head".

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.

What do you mean?

You have 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 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.