He doesn't say "I've been hiding under three umbrellas", he says "I've been hiding under green umbrellas".
"Three umbrellas" is used only in two spots; the first is "I don't take for granted my three umbrellas", and the second is a call-back at the end of the next verse.
And I strongly suspect it "three umbrellas" alludes to how 1 + 1 = 3 ifyouknowhatimean. Father, mother, child each standing in the rain has an umbrella. Thus "my three umbrellas" means "my family".
I'm not necessarily going to say there isn't also a marijuana reference in there, but essentially every song he's even written gets described by someone as "actually a metaphor for doing drugs" and I think it's just a lazy way to interpret something that's a tad opaque. David Portner just writes a bit like a Modernist.
He doesn't say "I've been hiding under three umbrellas", he says "I've been hiding under green umbrellas".
"Three umbrellas" is used only in two spots; the first is "I don't take for granted my three umbrellas", and the second is a call-back at the end of the next verse.
And I strongly suspect it "three umbrellas" alludes to how 1 + 1 = 3 ifyouknowhatimean. Father, mother, child each standing in the rain has an umbrella. Thus "my three umbrellas" means "my family".
I'm not necessarily going to say there isn't also a marijuana reference in there, but essentially every song he's even written gets described by someone as "actually a metaphor for doing drugs" and I think it's just a lazy way to interpret something that's a tad opaque. David Portner just writes a bit like a Modernist.