One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

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

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

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 sexual liberation, this “yeah baby”, is, is hard …