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''The American''
Bangkok, Oriental Setting
But the city don't know what the city is getting
The crème du la crème 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 boards in it
All changed, 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!
''Company''
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 cloister
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel an angel slidin' up to me
''The American''
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
''Company''
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
''The American''
Whattaya mean?!
You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
''Company''
T-girls¹, warm and sweet (''sweet'')
Some are set up
In the Somerset Maugham suite
''The American''
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest:
"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine"
''Company''
One night in Bangkok makes the 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
''The American''
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
''Company''
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 cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel slidin' up to me
One night in Bangkok makes the 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

JokesandJokesandJokes Aug 21, 2004 - 10:23	he said kok [ Reply ]
Eul0gy Aug 21, 2004 - 09:26	It isn't fun either, before someone gets smart. [ Reply ]
daveesh Aug 21, 2004 - 09:25	this isn't funny. [ Reply ]
Xeric Aug 06, 2004 - 20:51	I've been listening for only three days, but I've only heard two songs I loathed. I can't remember what the first one was. This is the other. [ Reply ]
laozilover Jun 13, 2004 - 08:52	I'm with the crowd who think this is a fun piece ... perhaps a little moralistic and supercilious "The Queens we use would not excite you" ... but FUN! :nodhead: [ Reply ]
orpheus Apr 21, 2004 - 20:24	marycrichards wrote: LOVE ITTTT!!!!!! What a fun song! i agree. wasn't meant to be taken all that seriously. [ Reply ]
rumplestiltskin Apr 21, 2004 - 20:24	I must confess, I have always liked this song... The lyrics always make me laugh. Then again, I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine! [ Reply ]
Cellocaster_Paul Apr 21, 2004 - 20:22	busch wrote: Oh... please don't play this on Radio Paradise. This station is great because it does not play songs like this one. Yeah, this one reminds me of bad top 40 stations in the 80's. [ Reply ]
Ken Apr 21, 2004 - 20:22	marginal as in margarine [ Reply ]
redeyespy Apr 21, 2004 - 20:22	In the context of the soundtrack for the show, it works all the better. Always thought it was catchy. Funny how this was a hit in the 80s.... [ Reply ]
brighthue Apr 09, 2004 - 02:02	Eul0gy wrote: Humanity will spend the rest of it's exsistance paying for the 80s... I think Bill put this one in just for laughs. [ Reply ]
SpaceCowboy Mar 15, 2004 - 03:35	Luckily white man has come a long way since Murray Head tried this pathetic excuse for a disco-rap song... At least we have Eminem now... And The Beastie Boys. [ Reply ]
RParadise Mar 03, 2004 - 09:57	edisoncarter wrote: Funny, I say that about the 70s. Funny, I say that about the 90s. [ Reply ]
edisoncarter Mar 03, 2004 - 09:46	Eul0gy wrote: Humanity will spend the rest of it's exsistance paying for the 80s... Funny, I say that about the 70s. [ Reply ]
RParadise Mar 03, 2004 - 09:45	bigpomp wrote: Bloob. Murray Head played Christ in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. Bloop, Bloob. No, he sang the role on the original album. [ Reply ]
marycrichards Mar 03, 2004 - 09:45	LOVE ITTTT!!!!!! What a fun song! [ Reply ]
busch Feb 10, 2004 - 06:03	Oh... please don't play this on Radio Paradise. This station is great because it does not play songs like this one. [ Reply ]
Geed Feb 10, 2004 - 05:57	Damn, haven't heard this in a while. I saw Head do this in London back in '85 in the musical Chess. Be nice to hear Say It Ain't So.....another of his I haven't heard in a bit. [ Reply ]
Eul0gy Feb 10, 2004 - 05:56	Humanity will spend the rest of it's exsistance paying for the 80s... [ Reply ]
Leslie Jan 30, 2004 - 18:42	bigpomp wrote: Bloob. Murray Head played Christ in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. Bloop, Bloob. That's incorrect, it was Ted Neeley [ Reply ]