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Rush - A Passage To Bangkok

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Album: 2112
Released: 1976

A Passage To Bangkok Lyrics

Our first stop is in BogotÁ
To check Columbian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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A Passage To Bangkok

This song is about the travails of using marijuana and opium, which is grown in Bangkok).

In the book Contents Under Pressure: 30 years of Rush by Martin Popoff, Alex Lifeson admits to smoking hashish (a high-grade form of marijuana) after some dental work in the early seventies. In the book Traveling Music: The Soundtrack To My Life And Times by Neil Peart, he admits to using recreational drugs including marijuana and LSD as a youth. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)