Before the Kiss, a Redcap

So grab your rose and ringside 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
 And endless shadow bar
 The owner's boys have gone to work
 We'll stop big deals behind that bar
 While 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 once more
 Lecherous, invisible
 Beware the limping cat
 Whose black teeth grip between loose jaws
 Still ripe and fully bloomed
 A rose and 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 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 ringside 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