Lampshade Lyrics - Kashmir

you'd be surprised if you looked through the eyes of a nova 

not recognizing the molehills on top of the star 

cheerful and swollen he waves from his seat in a rover 

that is his car 

you wouldn't doubt him shake the most powerful hands of importance 

changing the world as we know it by leaving his ink 

to judge from the fence 'round his house he must love all his children 

that's what you think 

but there's no time to think 

have a pill and a shrink 

just don't show us how you sweat 

making love to your kids 

is the last love that you will ever get 

you're a vanishing image of what I thought I knew 

but it comes to show 

that the man I know - 

is kissing that cheek that she had lifted up for her forty first birthday 

love is when someone you trust cuts a smile in your face 

boy had a dog and poor girl had a stroke like an earthquake 

now dog is a bird 

but there's no time to think 

have a pill and a shrink 

just don't show us how you sweat 

making love to your kids 

is the last love that you will ever get 

you're a vanishing image of what i thought I knew 

but it comes to show 

that the man I know 

has a fading glow 

in a white lampshade 

tell me lamshade the truth did you cover his soul 

did you protect all the horrible 

I shall tear you apart so that everyone knows 

what he's been carrying around 

tell me lampshade what is it you're trying to hide 

under your stinky old corduroy 

I shall rip and be shattered by the shrapnell of light 

that I've been choking on always 

there's a dog barking close within the range of my ear 

sounds like he wants to escape the chain 

he would probably bite me to death if he could 

but the chain lets me spit in his face 

like the dog has a chain clinging tight to it's neck 

this man is tied to his secrecy 

I would like to have killed him off in this last verse 

but instead I removed his lampshade