Intimate Relations from Shuffling Deckchairs by Steve BLaque

I was flying north from Beijing to Haerbin in 2007. So that's a long time back. An article in the China Daily was talkin' about the sexual revolution taking place in Shanghai and in particular in Shanghai's hotels. Of course this involved western guys who were coming over for whatever reasons...oh i love this one..."to be investors" or ''creative artists"....always gave me a kick...perhaps I'm being hypocritical? I don't think so (a line from another track on this album). I won't go too much on about the song now, saving to say that the only reason it really got pushed as far as it did, and at best it's a very poorly crafted piece of music, but it got as far as it did because I was dating a Russian girl and she had those 'eyes for me''because I played guitar'' She loved the song I didn't, but be damned if I was going to 'throw it away' i remember the times recording it in my San Li Tun studio in Beijing and there was a lot of work being put into it. It wasn't as glib as I just mentioned. I was by now, when recording this song beginning to think of a distant end point to the whole ''ongoing project'', even though I had no idea what the end point was.

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5.	Intimate Relations	4:18

Lyrics

Intimate Relations
Words n' Music Steve Blaque

Spare a thought
For just a moment
To some of those
Who go on the road
Filled with lust,
Perhaps excitement
hitting new shores
Unlocking treasure troves

& we have all heard
tales abound
About excesses
Of those who travel
And it’s no surprise
the latest stories
the middle kingdom
unravels

Chorus
So tens of thousands
Will kiss and tell
Write up blogs
Sms cells
sex in shanghai
Beyond administration
Boudoirs filled
With intimate relations

Girls seeking fortunes
Throwing it around
lusty devils
Have hit this here town
Local guys
Got some competition
The west’s morays
on eastern indiscretion

And why this reckless
desire for love
well just unshackle
your mind,
5 thousand years
feudally entwined
forget marriage
better as a concubine

Chorus
So tens of thousands
Will kiss and tell
Write up blogs
Sms on cells
And sex in shanghai
Beyond administration
Boudoirs filled
With intimate relations

Credits

from Shuffling Deckchairs, released March 2, 2015
all the people who came to china in search of steamy sex I guess you could argue. Sadly I wasn't living in Shanghai, but had been in 2007 for about 3 months.

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