[Verse 1]
Drugs are fucking fun, pal, factor that fucking in
To your Drug O fucking 'fensive type health fucking warning
There ain't a lot that's fun, pal, old age and school and dreams
Of a life that will never be, sexless nights, wasted schemes
Your horizon still receding, speeding hope that's fruitless
A sudden cliff and skidding then descent to twisted rest

[Chorus]
The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Serene and total peace
(They're not fun, pal)
The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Serene and total peace

[Verse 2]
I could'a stayed at home, pal, and lived a joyless life
But where the fuck's the fun in that? Superannuation, wife
The whole fucking package? For me, it never suited
A softcock life and limp death? Go and get fucking rooted
There might be fun in poetry and art and being literate
It never hit the spot for me, nor you, though you won't admit to it

[Chorus]
Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Hear the distant gong beat
Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Hear the distant gong beat

[Verse 3]
You say you got a PhD? Well, good for you, my son
How smart you fucking need to be to work out that drugs are fun?
Have a fucking bash, pal, take this suspect load
And give it to a mate of mine, lives on the Pat Pong Road
You ever felt the warming waves in the Gulf of old Siam?
Ever wanted to ever be a different fucking man?

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The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Foil parcels in my teeth
The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Foil parcels in my teeth

[Verse 4]
You need to hear the Mekong flood, it's an awesome fucking sound
Take this package, quickly pal, they've come to chain me fucking down
They bolt me to a concrete floor, don't get all moral, son
There's sixty of us goes in here, we all think that drugs are fun
Fifty years in a Thailand hell, twenty grams of smack up my arse
Why? 'Cause drugs are fucking fun, why the fuck you need to ask?

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The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Did a deal at the fat guy's feet
The Sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Did a deal at the fat guy's feet