Before The Kiss (A Redcap) - Live

Grab your rose and ring side seat
We're back home at Conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo
Reds and wine, cokes of course

Oh, my Susie, my Susie
Why did we ever start?
It's morning now, you'd never know
The gin, the gin
Glows in the dark, glows in the dark, yeah

And underneath the black light
Underneath it all
Four and 40 redheads meet
Come to doom 'til the dawn

With threats of gas and rose motif
Their lips apart like a swollen rose
Their tongues extend and then retract
A redcap, a redcap
Before the kiss, before the kiss

Doors like flint and window panes
An endless shadow bar
The owner's boys have gone to work
To stop big deals behind the bar

Outside on the turnpike
They got this new hit tune
Thrills become as cheap as gas
And gas as cheap as thrills

One thrill and mundane here at last
Expect the cross one more
Lecherous invisible
Beware the limping cat

Whose black teeth grip between loose jaws
Still ripe and fully bloomed
A rose that's not from anywhere
That you would know or I would care

And the owner's boys act most cheerfully
Back home at Conry's bar
When their patron's thoughts at last
Grow too big for their skulls

Awful things are happening
We've let this drama fold
And now the time has come at last
To crush the motif of the rose

So grab your rose and ring side seat
We're back home at Conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo
Reds and wine, cokes of course

Oh, my Susie, my Susie
Why did we ever start?
It's morning now, you'd never know
The gin, the gin
Glows in the dark, glows in the dark