A-Teens: "One Night In Bangkok" Lyrics

Bangkok, oriental setting

And the city dont 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 -- doesnt seem a minute

Since the tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

All change -- dont you know that when you

Play at this level theres no ordinary venue

Its iceland -- or the philippines -- or hastings -- or -- or this place!



One night in bangkok and the worlds your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls aint free

Youll find a God in every golden cloister

And if youre lucky then the gods a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me



One towns very like another

When your heads down over your pieces, brother



Its a drag, its a bore, its 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 thaid! youre talking to a tourist

Whose every moves 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

Cant be too careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me



Siams 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 Im only watching the game -- controlling it --

I dont see you guys rating

The kind of mate Im contemplating

Id 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 worlds your oyster

The bars are temples but the pearls aint free

Youll 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

Cant be too careful with your company

I can feel the devil walking next to me