Before the Kiss, a Redcap Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tony107660 

Cover art for Before the Kiss, a Redcap lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

This is one of my all-time favorite BOC songs, a wicked groove and a lyric that is brilliantly cryptic yet totally straightforward once you know the story. For scientific accuracy, it’s that quinine in tonic water in a gin and tonic that glows under a black light, but “the gin glows in the dark” is hella more poetic.