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Bangkok, Sin City Numero Uno, brilliantly hidden between the Lines!

Now usually I would twist the lyrics to famous pop songs, but with this largely forgotten song I decided to use the original lyrics and attempt to prove what an AMAZING song it is, meaning it is, ' reading between the lines', not just a pop-song, it means so much more!


Link to this brilliant 'Pop-Song' in very large commas, cough, cough:


So, here we go;


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


Jaggedone kicks in now: Intro, okay this just slips the reader into thinking it is about a Chess Competition held once in Bangkok, so what? Please read on...


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


Jaggedone continues: Slowly the initial intro slips into what the song is really leading to... Study the lines like


"and if you are lucky the God's a she!"

"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


JD kicks in: Now we are really getting into the 'Hidden Agenda', proof,

"You're talking to a tourist whose every move is among the PURIST"

" I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine!' Slowly we are getting to the nitty gritty!


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


Jaggedone's final proof of the double meaning behind this BRILLIANT song: Now just read between the following lines;

"But the queens we use would not excite you!"

"A little flesh, a little history"

"Can't be too careful with your company!"


Bangkok, Number one global SIN CITY! Perfectly described through an innocent Chess Tournament, which is not so innocent. The 'Hidden Agenda' between the lines is AMAZINGLY WRITTEN, but did the listeners really know what this song was about, I doubt it.





Now you all know what this classic pop song really means, AWESOME Stuff!

 
 
 

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