A-teens One Night In Bangkok Lyrics

One Night In Bangkok Lyrics

Bangkok, Oriental setting

 And the city don't know that 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

 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

 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 --

 

 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