Scotto can't sleep.

[scottobear]

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)
Whaddaya mean? You've 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 is 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 Buddah
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'd 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

Comments

why?

[shoo.livejournal.com]

why can't you sleep Scotto?
Do you have some Sleepy Time tea?
I have a "bed time with Ernie & Bert" video that is a sure fire hit....
; )

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard that song in ages!! Thanks for the walk down memory lane.. it was very sweet. Many good memories with that song of friends back home dancing in the living room and giggling at silly jokes.. *hug*

You are so sweet! *grin*

[nomi.livejournal.com]

hehe nice song there scotto :)

factoid

[christina.livejournal.com]

The fellow that sang that song, Murray Head, is the brother of Anthony Stewart Head - known as "Giles" on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as the male character in the romantic Tasters Choice commercials (remember those? heh!)

That is all... :)

[cider.livejournal.com]

Oy! This is going to be stuck in my head for ages! At least this time I won't have "One Night in Bangkok...." on constant repeat since you've been kind enough to include all the words.

I'm serious. This song never leaves your head. It trumps the limbo song in sheer power.

my pleasure

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean...

Now I'm caught in the nasal "So you'd better go back to your bars, your temples,Your massage parlours"

:)

happy to spread the joy!

Re: factoid

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Spiffy! *filing those to the collection.

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yupadoodle! :) I'm not going to point any fingers.... but somebody with a '3' in the napstername got it stuck in my head. :)

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Thanks Maura! :)

Re: why?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I drank so much tea I had to swim to bed... but I just had tinkering to do, and was restless... all awake again. :)

[kundalinidreams.livejournal.com]

That's a great song ! :-)

Thanks for putting the lyrics to it here.

For some reason it makes me think of the new addition to the "Vampire the Masquerade RPG"; the Asian vampires (Eastern Kindred).


-J.

*laughs*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I can see that... :) It's very evokative to me too..

Re: *laughs*

[kundalinidreams.livejournal.com]

:-) It must be the line of "golden temples and if you're lucky then the god's a she".

VtM is fun, but it is also only for fun. :-)


-J.

Re: *laughs*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

dern tootin'. that's the point of a game. :)

[nomi.livejournal.com]

;P

Thank you!

[burgundy.livejournal.com]

I was just listening to the "Chess" original cast recording the other day. And now I know all the words to that song, which I hadn't before. Spiff.

Re: Thank you!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

my pleasure! :) It's locked in my skull since finding it on nomi's napster list. :)