Before the Kiss, a Red Cap - Live at Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA - July 1983

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
 And underneath the black light
 Underneath it all
 Four and forty redheads meet
 Come to doom, doom the dawn
 With threats of gas and rose motif
 Their lips apart like 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 that bar
 Outside on the turnpike, they got this new hit tune
 Thrills become as cheap as gas and gas as cheap as thrills
 One threat and mundane here at last, expect to cross one more
 Lecherous invisible, beware the livid 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 act most cheerfully, back home at conry's bar
 When their patrons' thoughts at last grow too big for their skulls
 Awful things are happening, e'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, oh, 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
 Thank you so much