Umbrellas
03. Peanut Butter Wolf Lyrics
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I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
High above my head
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
High above my head
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
High above my head
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
High above my head
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head
High above my head
I like it
Girl you got a lot of style
And I know honey we can do
Girl you got it solid
Sweet dream on you, everything you do, I like it
Feed the babies who can't get enough to eat
Shoe the children
New shoes on their feet
House the people
Living in the street
Oh, there's a solution
I want to fly
Will we really ever love again
Or will we just sit and rot away with the brighter tomorrows and the scag fear
Rat-grubbing catch this halls of our minds
What y'all gonna do?
What y'all gonna do?
Into the future
Y'all and all better get it right and this time, while the time is good, 'cause there might not be no next time
We're falling back in the sea of our brothers, are calling at the bottomless ocean
Gusting down alleys and through streets of parked cars, walk by one spectacle motion
The future
In Peanut Butter Wolf's song "Umbrellas," the singer describes walking down the street in the rain with their umbrella high above their head. They observe the puddles and the rain lightly falling from the sky with a "pitter patter" sound. The singer then shifts to discussing the beauty of the umbrellas themselves, describing them as being "in bloom" and "nourished by the rain." As the rain gets harder, the singer sees a sea of colorful umbrellas and watches as they bend and creak in the wind, causing commotion in the streets. However, the singer finds hope in a patch of blue sky peeking through the clouds, and imagines that the umbrellas will hide and shrink as the sun comes out.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm walking down the street in the rain, my umbrella high above my head,
I'm strolling down a wet street with my umbrella raised high above me.
High above my head.
It's lifted way above my head's height.
Puddles along the wet sidewalks and gutters, (pitter patter)
I hear raindrops tapping on the damp pavement and going down the drains.
Rain lightly falling from the sky (pitter patter)
The raindrops are gently pouring out of the sky.
Red and green and free design,
Umbrellas come in various free designs of red and green.
Umbrellas are in bloom, nourished by the rain.
The rain is nurturing the blooming of umbrellas.
Though the clouds, the blackness and rain
Despite the darkness, clouds, and rain,
I see the lightning strike as though it were pain.
I watch lightning strikes that look like painful jolts.
Rain falling hard on a sea of umbrellas,
The downpour is harsh on the multitude of umbrellas.
A colorful bottomless ocean.
It looks like a vibrant never-ending ocean.
Then the wind it blows and it blows,
Suddenly, the wind fiercely blows.
I see the umbrellas bend, they creak and they groan.
Umbrellas start bending and moaning.
Gusting down alleys and through streets of cars
The wind gusts through alleys and streets filled with cars.
Causing unbottled unspent commotion.
It causes an unanticipated and energetic commotion.
I spy a patch of blue through a cloud,
I spot a blue patch through a cloud cover.
A patch of blue through a shroud.
It's like a small spot of blue shining through a cloth.
Hopefully umbrellas hide and shrink and close
Hopefully, the umbrellas will conceal, shrink, and close.
As the noonday sun peeks through the clouds.
Because the sun popped out of the clouds at noon.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: BRUCE DEDRICK
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