Caught Without an Umbrella Songtext
von Spearhead

Memories come down on me once again
I′m caught without an umbrella
Memories come down on me once again
I'm caught without an umbrella

Well it was not that he was particularly suicidal
He just didn′t care whether he lived or died, though
It was just a matter of time
You got yours and I got mine
When he turned sixteen they said he could drive
When he turned eighteen they said he could dive
When he turned twenty-one he could buy rum
But no one ever taught him how things were done
Then an angel appeared inside his head
She said "boy do you think you really better off dead?"

He don't know he just shook his head

Cause he thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
He thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side


Memories come down on me once again
I'm caught without an umbrella
Memories come down on me once again
I′m caught without an umbrella

But time was a matter of velocity
In this age of information and technology
He would cry and shout
Then he′d put his face in a towel and hide from the drought
Then he sat down and he wrote a note to his moms
"When all is said and done
Can I still be your son?"
"Because manhood is so elusive

And respect is so exclusive
And I got a daddy to prove it

I think I'll never get to shake it or move it"


Then he tied a rope around his neck
Looked in the mirror and said "what the heck
I′m gonna bring the whole roof down with me"
And then he jumped
Cause he thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
He thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
The day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side

Memories come down on me once again
I'm caught without an umbrella
Come in Vern

But halfway down he heard what the angel said
And he realized

He really didn′t want to be dead

He landed with a thump his head was reeling
Laying in a lump he looked up at the ceiling
And saw that the rope had broke
Well he failed at the only thing
That he thought he couldn't fail at
That was taking his own life
And he said "I kinda like living"
He could feel his heart making a boom
Sound of like music in the next room
He said "it′s time for celebration"

Felt his hands, looked at his face
Lifted the rope off his throat
"I ain't such a disgrace"
He said "manhood is so elusive
And respect is so exclusive
And I got a daddy to prove it

Some people never gonna get to shake it or move it"

But he thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
He thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
And he thought that the day that he died
Would be a normal day for the people on the other side
And he knew that the day that he tried
Was not a normal day for the people on the other side

Memories come down on me once again
I'm caught without an umbrella