Tim Rice - One Night in Bangkok (Original Recording Session) lyrics

[Chorus: Murray Head a capella] 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 [Verse: Murray Head accompanied] Get Thai'd if you get my meaning Better lean the way that the Buddha's leaning Siamese kittens: warm, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite That's in the Oriental Hotel, you know [Chorus: Murray Head accompanied] (music stops) [Conversation (all spoken)] Murray Head: I've still got- I still haven't found it yet. I'll find the holes and do it properly Man: Sure. And, could I add a suggestion? Murray Head: Yeah Man: The thing is- It's like “yeah, baby!”, yeah! If you can do that in the ending, to make it more … more, uh more gusto, you know? Man 2: (singing) Yeah! (speaking) Things like that, you know, little things like that Murray Head: Sexual overtones? (Many voices in background agreeing) Murray Head: Yes, yes, yes Man 2: Alright, from the top again Murray Head: (large sigh) It's so hard, as somebody reaching middle age- only just! post-, uh, pre-menopause, not post-menopause, to galvanize oneself into this sort of s**ual liberation, this “yeah baby”, is, is hard …