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Artist: Murray Head
Suggested Track: One Night in Bangkok

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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 me
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Murray Head – One Night in Bangkok
[Verse 1] / Bangkok, Oriental setting / The city don't know what the city is getting / The crème de la crème of the chess world / In a show with everything but Yul Brynner / Time
Murray Head – Never Even Thought
Never even thought it could happen to me / Maybe I've been blind only others can see / I'm in love / What am I to do can I let it show ? / Do I keep it to myself or should I let
Murray Head – Boats Away
Climb the rigging and haul the ropes / Hoist and unfurl the dusty sail / Winds are singing, we're bound for hope / It is impossible to fail / Flesh is willing and dreams will soar
Murray Head – Los Angeles
Leave my passport and deposit / With the man behind a desk / In a motel on some old boulevard / Where the view deserves a rest / Try the phone just one more time / Answering
Murray Head – Superstar
[JUDAS] / Every time I look at you, I don't understand / Why you let the things you did get so out of hand / You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned / Why'd you choose
Murray Head – Dust in the Wind
[Verse 1] / I close my eyes / Only for a moment and the moment's gone / All my dreams / Pass before my eyes, a curiosity / [Chorus] / Dust in the wind / All they are is dust in the
Murray Head – When I'm Yours
Turning me on and with your eyes / Playing along and with your eyes / Coming on strong and with your eyes / You burn me / Surching to please and with your smile / Cursing with ease
Murray Head – Pity The Child
When I was nine, I learned survival / Taught myself not to care / I was my single good companion / Taking my comfort there / Up in my room, I planned my conquests / On my own
Murray Head – Boy On The Bridge
There's a boy on the bridge / And he's looking ahead with confusion in his eyes / There's a man on the ridge / Who is laughing out loud, heavily in disguise / There's a girl on the
Murray Head – How Many Ways
I've been travelling hard tho' there didn't seem much to move me / And my senses were numbed as the scenery passed right thru' me / Down a telephone line it was easy enough to lose
Murray Head – Don't Forget Him Now
Now is the time when he needs your every support / Now is the time when he needs your love / Now is the time when he needs your every thought / He needs help from you and heaven
Murray Head – Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle remembers too well / How once she was belle of the ball / Now the past she sadly recalls / Mademoiselle lived in grand hotels / Ordered clothes by Chanel and Dior
Murray Head – Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
Someone's rocking my dreamboat / Someone's invading my dreams / We were sailing along so peaceful and calm / Suddenly something went wrong / Someone's rocking my dreamboat
Murray Head – Say it Ain't So, Joe
According to Head, he wrote the song about fallen heroes. He re-released the song in 1995 on the album When You’re in Love, and he wrote the following comment in the liner notes:
Murray Head – Silence Is a Strong Reply
Can't you hear me calling, I'm shouting out loud / Maybe you've mistaken me for one of the crowd / My back's against the wall, my feeling's on show / Silence is the only reply that
Murray Head – Beds Are Burning
[Verse 1] / Out where the river broke / The bloodwood and the desert oak / Holden wrecks and boiling diesels / Steam in forty-five degrees / [Pre-Chorus] / The time has come to say
Murray Head – You're So Tasty
Ooh, my sweet baby / You are so very tasty / Let us have another / Drink with each other, baby / Who needs the words to say it / If we speak we'll only waste it / Touch for touch
Murray Head – Going Back
[Verse 1] / I think I'm going back / To the things I learned so well in my youth / I think I'm returning to / Those days when I was young enough to know the truth / Now there are
Murray Head – White Flag
[Verse 1] / I know you think that I shouldn't still love you / Or tell you that / But if I didn't say it, well, I'd still have felt it / And where's the sense in that? / I promise
Murray Head – Missing
[Verse 1] / I step off the train / I'm walking down your street again / And past your door / But you don't live there anymore / It's years since you've been there / Now you've
Murray Head – You Gotta Be
[Verse 1] / Listen as your day unfolds / Challenge what the future holds / Try and keep your head up to the sky / Lovers, they may cause you tears / Go ahead, release your fears
Murray Head – Move Closer
When we're together / Touching each other / And our bodies / Do what we feel / When we're dancing / Smooching and swaying / Tender love song / Softly playing / Move closer (move
Murray Head – We Won’t Get Fooled Again
[Verse 1] / We'll be fighting in the streets / With our children at our feet / And the morals that they worship will be gone / And the men who spurred us on / Sit in judgement of
Murray Head – She's Such a Drag
Darling you'll love it, it's down on the corner / Wearing those star-studded high heel boots / Wear your mascara, try on the tiara / Perhaps it'll cover up some of your roots / She
Murray Head – One Night in Bangkok (Original Recording Session)
This audio of one of the original recording sessions of One Night in Bangkok was originally released as part of a documentary about the Chess concept album. It contains Murray Head
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[Verse 1] / "Keep your head above the water" / Says the man in the sky / "And don't believe you've ever got it made" / That's alright for you / He knows just what's going on / Me
Murray Head – Los Angeles (Live)
Leave my passport and deposit / With the man behind a desk / In a motel on some old boulevard / Where the view deserves a rest / Try the phone just one more time / Answering
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Genius Q&A
Q:Who wrote “When I'm Yours” by Murray Head?
“When I'm Yours” by Murray Head was written by Murray Head.
Q:When did Murray Head release “Superstar”?
Murray Head released “Superstar” on November 21, 1969.
Q:When did Murray Head release “Dust in the Wind”?
Murray Head released “Dust in the Wind” in 2012.
Q:Who wrote “Going Back” by Murray Head?
“Going Back” by Murray Head was written by Carole King, Gerry Goffin & Goffin & King.
Q:Who produced “Never Even Thought” by Murray Head?
“Never Even Thought” by Murray Head was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith.
Q:Who wrote “You're So Tasty” by Murray Head?
“You're So Tasty” by Murray Head was written by Murray Head.
Q:When did Murray Head release “Boy On The Bridge”?
Murray Head released “Boy On The Bridge” in 1975.
Q:When did Murray Head release “Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat”?
Murray Head released “Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat” in 1975.
Q:Who wrote “You Gotta Be” by Murray Head?
“You Gotta Be” by Murray Head was written by Ashley Ingram & Des'ree.
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