Bangkok Nights
August 19th 2007 09:28
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls aren'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
Bangkok is a city that never sleeps. Even in the time of now deposed Prime Minister Takhsin’s curfews, it never really closed down. And even before the song, its nights were legendary. Traffic roars and blares constantly. Lights flash and glare. The streets swarm with movement and people throng to thousands, if not millions of clubs, discos and bars. Whatever your particular night-life fancy, you’ll find it in Bangkok.
There are fabulous, classy, world famous clubs; playgrounds for the rich, the celebrated and the royal, where watchful bodyguards follow their charges from the edge of dance-floors surging with jewels and designer gear.
You’ll find those bars, the stuff of travelers’ tales, where tourists watch with mouths agape and eyes agog while ladies and lady boys perform unbelievable tricks with unmentionable parts of their bodies. And you’ll find others again where as you sip on your drink of choice, they’ll do unspeakable things to unmentionable parts of yours.
Many of Bangkok’s clubs and bars buzz with the not so secret business between penniless, beautiful Thai youth and past-their-prime, gone-to-seed, white wallets. At tables and on dance-floors, clumsy paunches and graceful young figures meet against a background of relentless disco hits. Outsiders look on with a mixture of pity and amusement, at this tragi-comic commerce between the desperately poor and the ridiculously needy,
And then there’s yet another Bangkok night, down, in the city’s sinister and infamous underbelly. This is the Bangkok where children are enslaved in prostitution and the world’s worst human beings collect to prey on them.
One night in Bangkok makes a hard msn humble
Not much between despair and ecstacy
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
The bars are temples but the pearls aren'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
Bangkok temple
Bangkok is a city that never sleeps. Even in the time of now deposed Prime Minister Takhsin’s curfews, it never really closed down. And even before the song, its nights were legendary. Traffic roars and blares constantly. Lights flash and glare. The streets swarm with movement and people throng to thousands, if not millions of clubs, discos and bars. Whatever your particular night-life fancy, you’ll find it in Bangkok.
There are fabulous, classy, world famous clubs; playgrounds for the rich, the celebrated and the royal, where watchful bodyguards follow their charges from the edge of dance-floors surging with jewels and designer gear.
You’ll find those bars, the stuff of travelers’ tales, where tourists watch with mouths agape and eyes agog while ladies and lady boys perform unbelievable tricks with unmentionable parts of their bodies. And you’ll find others again where as you sip on your drink of choice, they’ll do unspeakable things to unmentionable parts of yours.
Many of Bangkok’s clubs and bars buzz with the not so secret business between penniless, beautiful Thai youth and past-their-prime, gone-to-seed, white wallets. At tables and on dance-floors, clumsy paunches and graceful young figures meet against a background of relentless disco hits. Outsiders look on with a mixture of pity and amusement, at this tragi-comic commerce between the desperately poor and the ridiculously needy,
And then there’s yet another Bangkok night, down, in the city’s sinister and infamous underbelly. This is the Bangkok where children are enslaved in prostitution and the world’s worst human beings collect to prey on them.
One night in Bangkok makes a hard msn humble
Not much between despair and ecstacy
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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