Before the Kiss (A Recap) (Live Version)-Blue Oyster Cult

[00:22.07]So grab your rose and ringside seat [00:26.00]We're back home at Conry's Bar [00:29.81]The blonde girl with her tattoo [00:33.62]Reds and wine, cokes of course [00:37.32]Oh my Susie, my Susie [00:41.25]Why did we ever start [00:45.05]It's morning now, you'd never know [00:49.08]The gin, the gin [00:52.67]Glows in the dark [00:54.63]Glows in the dark [00:56.59] [01:04.23]And underneath the black light [01:08.15]Underneath it all [01:11.96]Four and forty redheads meet [01:15.89]Come to doom, doom the dawn [01:19.71]With threats of gas and rose motif [01:23.63]Their lips apart like swollen rose [01:27.45]Their tongues extend and then retract [01:31.59]A redcap, a redcap [01:35.18]Before the kiss [01:37.14]Before the kiss [01:39.32] [02:02.34]Doors like flint and window panes [02:04.08]And endless shadow bar [02:06.04]The owner's boys have gone to work [02:07.79]We'll stop big deals behind that bar [02:09.74]While outside on the turnpike [02:11.80]They got this new hit tune [02:13.67]Thrills become as cheap as gas [02:15.51]And gas as cheap as thrills [02:17.59] [02:32.39]One threat and mundane here at last [02:34.35]Expect to cross once more [02:36.43]Lecherous, invisible [02:38.07]Beware the limping cat [02:40.13]Whose black teeth grip between loose jaws [02:41.99]Still ripe and fully bloomed [02:44.07]A rose and not from anywhere [02:45.81]That you would know or I would care [02:48.54] [03:02.91]And the owners act most cheerfully [03:04.87]Back home at Conry's Bar [03:06.94]When their patron's thoughts at last [03:08.67]Grow too big for their skulls [03:10.75]Awful things are happening [03:12.38]We've let this drama fold [03:14.57]And now the time has come at last [03:16.30]To crush the motif of the rose [03:19.35] [03:41.33]So grab your rose and ringside seat [03:45.27]We're back home at Conry's Bar [03:49.08]The blonde girl with her tattoo [03:52.89]Reds and wine, cokes of course [03:56.69]Oh my Susie, my Susie [04:00.62]Why did we ever start [04:04.43]It's morning now, you'd never know [04:08.47]The gin, the gin [04:12.17]Glows in the dark [04:14.23]Glows in the dark [04:16.40]