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umbrella - jean rohe lyrics

we come from a place where the rain never fell;
can’t you see the sun straining at the empty well?
the clothes were always drying out on the laundry line
and it was always picnic weather but our mouths were parched and dry
we were thirsty all the time

now, noah had a house where god kept knocking on the door;
can’t you hear him hammer away on his two by fours?
we all thought him harmless but unusual, too
and all the children loved his polar bears, giraffеs, and marmosets
oh, his goats and his kangaroos

then, so it was, a great miraclе came
first, we saw the lightning and then we felt the rain
and as the children danced and moistened their tongues
that’s when we first saw that man
alone beneath the falling rain
he silently surveyed the scene; oblivious to the revelry he called out singing:

umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella…

the man held aloft an object we had never seen before
a thing to keep us dry in our first downpour
but no one paid him mind, no one paid him any heed
and all the people marveled as the dirt made mud beneath their feet
oh, the mud beneath their feet
then, so it was, the waters began to rise
and for days the rain kept falling down from the sunless skies
and as the children shouted, searching for air
our neighbor noah sailed away—we saw what kind of guy he was
he never turned a tender eye to the people screaming, babies crying, and somebody singing:

umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella…

i’ve been called a skeptic and i’ve been called worse
and they say the sins of humans brought the water curse
a sinner and believer as i stand before you now
in the power of a peddler to spare our lives somehow
oh, he saved our lives somehow

then, so it was, we floated on for days
in our overturned umbrellas, braving rain, and wind, and wave
and as the people shouted, sighting the shore
we knew we’d found the way back home, that god could not just k!ll us all
though noah’s stony heart was cold, but those who love this life of ours
will always find a way to live it, long as there is joy and awe and somebody singing:

umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella…

- jean rohe lyrics

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