Before The Kiss Lyrics - Blue Oyster Cult

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 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 

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 to 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 their 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 

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