Under My Umbrella

Album: Morning View (2001)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song tells you to be your own person. You decide what you believe, what you see, who you are, etc. People who force their beliefs on you are nothing more than rain coming down on your umbrella. If what someone else believes is considered right (and you disagree), then you would rather be wrong. If what they see is considered sight, you would rather be blind.
  • Incubus puts a lot bleeps, scratches, and curious elements into their songs, thanks to their turntablist, Chris Kilmore. In the "Under My Umbrella" instrumental passage, it sounds like there's a lick from Björk's 1995 song "Possibly Maybe" in the mix at a slower tempo. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for above 2

Comments: 7

  • Tess from Milledgeville, GaIncubus is a-freaking-mazing. And so is this song!
  • Nate from Aurora, IlYet another great song..INCUBUS IS THE GREATEST
  • Laryn from Hattiesburg, MsI loved that entire album. Best $11 I have ever spent.
  • Magnus from Dunfermline, Scotlandthis is my favorite Incubus song 2 !!
    Indeed thay r Bad ass !
  • Jack from Oklahoma City, OkI would have to say that this is my personal fovorite InCuBuS song. They are bad ass!
  • Holly from Powhatan, VaThis is my favorite song by them period. The encore they performed of this during the 2004 tour was phenomenonal, download it off incubusonline.com.
  • Tim from Pittsburgh, PaThis is my favorite song off of "Morning View."
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