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Out Tonight
04:42
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Let's you and me go out tonight
And leave the rest behind
Everyone else has let me down
And maybe you will too
But that's for another time
And not for me to think about tonight
Let's walk across the town tonight
Elegant and free
No one to drag us down tonight
Acting mean and tough
Though that will happen soon enough
Let's keep that picture out of sight tonight
I don't want to go home tonight
Let's have too much to say
No sharp cut as we say goodbye
But slowly fade away
Into a morning haze
That leaves me feeling incomplete tonight
'Cause pretty soon you'll see a harsher side to what you do
You know your actions are about to all catch up with you
So hold on with a grip so strong
To names and faces that belong
Hold on with a grip so strong
To names and faces that belong
Hold on with a grip so strong
To names and faces that I long
To hold on with a grip so strong
To days and faces that belong
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Out Of The Sky
04:27
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Who do you think you are
Using that tone with me?
I know I've judged things wrong before
But I've been getting better lately
And, despite how it may sometimes seem,
I want to hear your voice
I don't want to alarm you but
You shouldn't have a choice
You don't want to know
About the effort and grind
The grit in the oyster
The duties and binds
It doesn't happen round here
Not to people like us
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
It doesn't happen round here
Not to people like us
It isn't becoming
To make such a fuss
Ninety-nine point nine per cent
Of everything I see or hear
Grates or bores before I
Generously let it disappear
So pardon me if I refuse
To sit and watch you, so off hand
But I'm not giving up because
We drifted from some plan
Not to keep under wraps
Smothered at birth
That's against its own purpose
Against its own worth
So rise up and fight
For a place in our lives
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
You don't want to know
About the effort and grind
The grit in the oyster
The duties and binds
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
It doesn't fall from out of the sky
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In The Back Of Your Car
03:40
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In the back of your car
Is where I feel safe and secure
Put my life in your hands
I couldn't ask for more
And a silence descended a
As we softly skidded across the road
And I wanted to see if my life would flash by
But everything around went so slow
Won't you wind down now?
In the back of your care
No one can hurt me
Here you two of us are
And you will never desert me
As we drive through the road
Outside's icy and cold
I am happy and warm
Making decisions was never so easy
Or quick to perform
You've gone very quiet
But just being with you, oh, I'm easily pleased
And a country road has a different feel
Seen at ninety degrees
Won't you wind down now?
Pure love should never be let down by grimy reality
So hold on to one perfect moment of how it should always be
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Light Sleeper
05:19
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Sometimes I think my heart will explode
And burst all over the pavement
So many secrets, so much guilt to unload
I could never contain it
I could never contain it
Sometimes I think my brain will explode
My mind decayed and all sickly
Poisonous thoughts on display to the world
No one could ever forgive me
They could never forgive me
Waking up at four a.m. again
Oh those sighs give away your pain
Why this escape into fiction
Suddenly that's worse than anything
Sometimes I think my heart will explode
I hope the end will come quickly
Toxic yearnings will scatter the road
No one could ever forgive me
They could never forgive me
Waking up at four a.m. again
Oh those sighs give away your pain
Why this escape into fiction
Suddenly that's worse than anything
Light sleeper
Waking up at four A.M. again
Deep breather
Oh those sighs give away your pain
Book reader
Why this escape into fiction?
Non-breeder
Now that’s the worst thing, that’s the worst thing
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You Want Me Dead
03:23
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You're phoning the hospitals
You're braced for the worst
That with no assistance
Your secret wish will be fulfilled
You've a hunger for tragedy
A fear and a thirst
For a brutal truth you know's unusual
Yet leaves you thrilled
You want me dead
So you can share my bed
With another love
Who irritates you far less than I do
You want me dead
So you can share my bed
With another lover
Who inspires a devotion that I can't compete with
I'm way ahead of you
I'm way ahead of you
I know that you're watching me
Wishing me gone
It make life much all be much easier
If you'd just step aside
If you could be certain the friends and the furniture
Would still be there
You want me dead
So you can share my bed
With another love
Who irritates you far less than I do
You want me dead
So you can share my bed
With another lover
Who inspires a devotion that I can't compete with
I'm way ahead of you
I'm way ahead of you
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I don't need to take a tablet
To feel close to you
We're already there
We're already there
But hasn't it become a habit
I can feel too close to you
Too close to bear
It can feel too close to bear
And when we say the same words at the same time
Doesn't beguile anymore
Or make me smile anymore
I just crave fresh conversation
And these days I find your vague suggestions
They beg the question
Hearing only hesitation
But with a pot of fresh coffee, newspapers in the sun
Nothing can be so bad, nothing can be so bad
See what a boost to serotonin's done
Nothing can be so bad, nothing can be so bad
Oh you should never leave your lover in the summer
I couldn't struggle through this heat unaided
Even if I keep you at an arm's length
Till the first frost comes we won't be separated
But with a pot of fresh coffee, newspapers in the sun
Nothing can be so bad, nothing can be so bad
See what a boost to serotonin's done
Nothing can be so bad, nothing can be so bad
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Summer
05:10
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I hate the summer
It reminds me of death
A brash display of vigour
Before a final breath
Like bursting into blossom
Before you wilt away
Sun-bleached and sundried
And wasting away
I'm going to fade away
It's the season to escape
To see how far you can get away
But I am disinclined to move
I'm disinclined in every way
Sitting on my doorstep
Struggling to remember
Craving a vague notion
Before I give up all together
I'm going to fade away
I'm going to fade away
I know I was going to do something
I know I was about to go somewhere
I hate the summer
It reminds me of all the things I've lost
Warm sun, long days and easy times
And I can only think about the cost
It can look inviting
When you see it from afar
Skips by in an instant
You don't get how stuck you are
I'm going to fade away
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My lover the singer
Debuts a new set
All ears expectant
All eyes on the band
And after they've finished
I have to go over
Congratulations,
I'm truly a fan
Your block has dissolved, your writing evolved
But I'm sorry, there's one little matter I can't leave unsaid
You don't have the imagination
To write these songs and not mean what they say
It has to be a real situation
To sing of passion and heartache this way
Now I don't want to know a name
Because after all they're all the same
And face it, hon, you've told me plenty already
But now I can't go along
I'd sooner not have the songs
So here's something real for you to get your teeth into
Now please don't insult me
By telling me stories
Of lives you have studied
And books you have read
You've told me before
You've no talent for fiction
Words come out phony
And graceless and lead
Your block has dissolved, your writing evolved
So please don't protest, this work is your best
But I think you could be topping it all
Sooner than you think
You don't have the imagination
To write these songs and not mean what they say
It has to be a real situation
To sing of passion and heartache this way
Now I don't want to know a name
Because after all they're all the same
And face it, hon, you've told me plenty already
But now I can't go along
I'd sooner not have the songs
So here's something real for you to get your teeth into
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Sparkling
04:45
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No matter what you know
No matter how deep it runs
People change
A pretty bauble can catch an eye
And knowing that today
Is the saddest thing
Wherever you go
However far you move
You'll never be sure
A ghostly memory will stir again
And you won't sleep soundly
Ever again
Hey sugar, you know nothing lasts forever
And possession is a dangerous word
Yesterday you thought you'd been so clever
Excuse my manners, I hadn't heard
And you know the break could be too clean
Give it one more blow
And it will never fit together again
The water looks cool
Inviting and sparkling
Diving in
This visit is temporary
You're leaving behind everything
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Melt
03:19
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Watching over me, it's a study
Will I climb or will I fall?
You know your thoughts can turn so muddy
When crimes stop to appall
But even so
If I let myself go
I could melt in your arms right now
I could melt in your arms right now
Right now
Because you take me over the rainbow
Then you drop me down on the floor
And I'm lying here, crying here breathless
But you know I'm hoping for before
And you take me with you to places
That I've never been to before
So won't you take me over the rainbow
Before you drop me down on the floor
Before you drop me down on the floor
I spend an hour
In a hotel lobby
Waiting for a friend
I know that I
Am just a hobby
To occupy a lost weekend
But even so
If I let myself go
I could melt in your arms right now
I could melt in your arms right now
Right now
Because you take me over the rainbow
Then you drop me down on the floor
And I'm lying here, crying here breathless
But you know I'm hoping for before
And you take me with you to places
That I've never been to before
So won't you take me over the rainbow
Before you drop me down on the floor
Before you drop me down on the floor
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Umbrella Heaven London, UK
Umbrella Heaven were a south-east London-based guitar band, active from 1991 till 2001 and noted for their dark lyrical content and catchy melodies – as well as the fact that most of the members were in at least one other band. They were sometimes compared to Orange Juice, Pulp and even Psychedelic Furs. They released four singles and three albums on the BoogleWonderland label ... more
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