Could someone analyse the famous song One night in Bangkok by Murray Head

What are the word meanings?

I'm listening to it

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Ladyboys and women.

Great song!

Top 50 song of all time for me.

Bangkok ( one night in )

One night in Pattaya should have been the next song.

Its about the game of Chess .

He Wants to win the Chess tournament and NOT to get involved in the prostitution scene

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't 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 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

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd! 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

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

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 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 m

14 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Its about the game of Chess .

He Wants to win the Chess tournament and NOT to get involved in the prostitution scene

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't 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 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

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd! 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

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

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 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 m

Really? Lol

Its about ladyboys. Not too deep at all really.

2 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Really? Lol

Can you read the lyrics ?

The song is from the musical called "Chess"

The kind of mate I'm contemplating (Check mate, a chess move )
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you (Queen is a Chess piece)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

Its about ladyboys. Not too deep at all really.

If you just listen to just one verse from one song from an album from a musical, you would get the impression that its about ladyboys :)

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

If you just listen to just one verse from one song from an album from a musical, you would get the impression that its about ladyboys :)

Its really not that deep.

Just now, blaze master said:

Its really not that deep.

Way too deep for you

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Way too deep for you

If you say so nick.

4 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Its really not that deep.

Watch the video and read the lyrics

'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Watch the video and read the lyrics

'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

Oh dear. Keep doing you then.

Just now, blaze master said:

Oh dear. Keep doing you then.

I have no idea what that means

"Keep doing you then"

What are you trying to say ?

It is from the musical Chess and is sung from the perspective of Freddie Trumper, the American chess grandmaster. He views Bangkok as sordid and chaotic, it is condescending about the culture and implies that anything can be bought, including sex. The song was officially banned in Thailand in 1985.

5 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Great song!

Homo song! Perfect for you.

40 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Homo song! Perfect for you.

Chess is homo

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

I have no idea what that means

"Keep doing you then"

What are you trying to say ?

He prefers checkers

4 hours ago, AlexRich said:

The song was officially banned in Thailand in 1985.

Wow , I never knew that

After hearing that ABBA had helped write the music and lyrics, I couldn't stop hearing that influence. I thought they may have sung the chorus, but I don't believe that was the case.

28 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

After hearing that ABBA had helped write the music and lyrics, I couldn't stop hearing that influence. I thought they may have sung the chorus, but I don't believe that was the case.

I have no idea

But Murray Head sang the song please don't get it confused with Ian Dury who sang hit me with your Rhythm stick

There are a few "south east Asian" songs ...LOST in CAMBODIA

1 minute ago, georgegeorgia said:

I have no idea

But Murray Head sang the song please don't get it confused with Ian Dury who sang hit me with your Rhythm stick

There are a few "south east Asian" songs ...LOST in CAMBODIA

Could you please try and post something that is not inane babble? It seems that is what you have fallen into, and it is frigging boring and silly.

A night in Thailand can turn one from being Macrohard to Microsoft.