One Night In Bangkok/曼谷之夜(Murray Head/莫瑞海德)

 
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
在曼谷待上一夜,可以讓一個驕傲的人變得謙卑
Not much between despair and ecstasy
在絕望和狂喜之間沒有多大的差距
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
在曼谷待上一夜,會是一個堅強的人倒下
Can't be too careful with your company
不得不小心你的夥伴
I can feel the devil walking next to me
我可以感覺到魔鬼就走在我身邊

Bangkok, Oriental setting
曼谷,一個東方的城市
And the city don't know that the city is getting
這座城市不知道它自己正在成為
The creme de la creme of the chess world
象棋世界的精華
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
它展現了一切除了尤-伯連納(美國演員,曾主演國王與我)

Time flies , doesn't seem a minute
時光飛逝,感覺只是一分鐘
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
自從Tirolean spa裏有了下象棋的男孩子們
All change , don't you know that when you
一切都變了,你不知道,當你
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
在玩這關的時候,那裏沒有普通的聚會
It's Iceland.... or the Philippines.... or Hastings.... or.... or this place!
這裏是冰島,或是菲律賓,或海斯汀,或者就是這個地方
 

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
在曼谷的這個晚上,這裏是你的世界
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
酒吧就是廟宇....但他們雖是珍品卻不是免費的,
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
在每個金色的修道院你都會找到神
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
如果幸運的話,你會發現上帝就是一個女孩
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
我可以感覺到,一個天使從我頭頂上劃過
 

One town's very like another
有一個鎮看上去很另類
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
老兄,你會看見那些場景
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
穿女人衣服的男人，那麼令人感到厭煩,真是個令人感到同情的地方
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
去看董事會,而不是去看這座城市
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town....
那是什麼意思？你看見了一個擁擠的、被污染的、散發著難聞氣味的鎮上....
 

Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet
茶、姑娘們、溫柔的氣氛、甜蜜
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
有些被建設在薩姆塞特毛姆(英國作家)的幻想上
 

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
到了泰國,你就是再問一個旅行的人
Whose every move's among the purest
每一個腳步都踩在最純粹的土地之間
I get my kicks above the waistline,sunshine
我對我的腰圍開始有了興趣,真是幸福....

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
在曼谷待上一夜,可以讓一個驕傲的人變得謙卑
Not much between despair and ecstasy
在絕望和狂喜之間沒有多大的差距
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
在曼谷待上一夜,會是一個堅強的人倒下
Can't be too careful with your company
不得不小心你的夥伴
I can feel the devil walking next to me
我可以感覺到魔鬼就走在我身邊
 

Siam's gonna be the witness
泰國浴的澡堂正在成為這裏的見證
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
達到正常理智的極限測試
This grips me more than would
這會讓我受到更多的控制
A muddy old river or reclining Buddha
渾濁不清的老河依靠著有佛的地方
And thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it
感謝上帝,我只是看著這場遊戲,控制住它
I don't see you guys rating
我沒有看見你那種朋友的方式
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
那種朋友般凝視我的樣子
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
我會讓你看著,我會邀請你來看
But the queens we use would not excite you
但是我們的女皇不會為你而興奮
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours
所以你最好回到你的酒吧,你的廟宇,你的旅館按摩廳

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
在曼谷的這個晚上,這裏是你的世界
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
酒吧就是廟宇....但他們雖是珍品卻不是免費的,
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
在每個金色的修道院你都會找到神
A little flesh, a little history
有點新鮮,有點歷史的感覺
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
我可以感覺到,一個天使從我頭頂上劃過
 

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
在曼谷待上一夜,可以讓一個驕傲的人變得謙卑
Not much between despair and ecstasy
在絕望和狂喜之間沒有多大的差距
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
在曼谷待上一夜,會是一個堅強的人倒下
Can't be too careful with your company
不得不小心你的夥伴
I can feel the devil walking next to me
我可以感覺到魔鬼就走在我身邊.............