Bangkok, oriental setting, and the city don't know what the city is kept The creme de la creme of the chess world in a show with everything, but you'll grinner Time flies, doesn't seem a minute since the Tirilion 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 their pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden oyster And if you're lucky then the gods are sheep I can feel an angel sliding up to me One town's fairy like another when your head's down over your pieces, brother It's a drag, it's a bore, it's sweet, it's such a pity to be looking at the bar, not looking at the city What do you mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town Don't you know it's warm and sweet, sweet? Somerset up with the somerset palm sweet Get tied, 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 Queens I am's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a muddy old river or a climbing 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 parlours One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden oyster A little special, little history I can feel the devil walking next to me A little special, 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 A little special, little history I can feel an angel sliding up to me A little special, 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 I can feel an angel sliding up to me