Before The Kiss
So grab your rose & ring side seat,
We're back home at conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo,
Reds & 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 & forty redheads meet,
Come to doom 'til the dawn
With threats of gas & rose motif
Their lips apart like a swollen rose
Their tongues extend, & then retract
A redcap, a redcap, before the kiss, before the kiss.
Doors like flint & 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 & mundane here at last
Expect the cross one more
Lecherous invisible
Beware the limping cat
Whose black teeth grip between loose jaws
Still ripe & 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 & ring side seat
We're back home at conry's bar
The blond girl with her tattoo
Reds & 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