Before the Kiss (A Recap) - Live 1974

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 suzy, my suzy,
 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
 And underneath, the black light,
 underneath it all
 four and forty 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
 While outside on the turnpike
 they got this new hit tune
 where 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 owners boys act most cheerfully
 back home at conry's bar
 when their patrons' thoughts at last
 grow too big for their skulls
 And 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 suzy, my suzy
 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