Lyrics to Lamplight

Lyrics to the song Lamplight as recorded by Andy Mackay & Howard Schuman for the TV series Rock Follies in 1976

When Tom and I
Make love
He turns the lamp out
He won't look at me
And I sometimes wonder
Who he sees
When he's making love to me
With the lamp out

When you and I
Made love
You kept the lamp on
In that hotel room
With the empty view
We both smiled too much
Like strangers do
And yet I felt
So close to you
In the lamplight

Then you told me a joke
In the lamplight
And all at once
I began to cry
'Cause Tom and I
We hardly speak
We hardly ever speak anymore

When you had dressed
And gone
I kept the lamp on
I found two grey hairs
On the pillow case
It was all you'd left
The only trace
So distant was
Our last embrace
In the lamplight

And I though of your joke
In the lamplight
And all at once
I began to cry
How often I
Try to find
A little consolation
In the lamplight

 

Lamplight

Album Track

Lamplight was written by Andy Mackay with Howard Schumann for the first series of the TV drama 'Rock Follies' in 1976

Song Musicians

Lamplight is on the following Roxy Music and Solo Albums