The Aspidistra Flies

All the umbrellas in London

Couldn't hide my love for you

All the rain on Thamesside

Couldn't stop it shining through

I dreamt of you last night

Lying next to me in blue

All the umbrellas in London

Couldn't hide my love for you

Run to the window and call out my name

We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain

From the rain, from the rain

All the umbrellas in London

Couldn't hide my love for you

When everyone else is hiding

Rainy Sundays drunk at two

You'll whisper sweet lies to me

And one of them will be true

All the umbrellas in London

Couldn't hide my love for you

The gloom of the city at evening is still

You whisper come to me

And I always will

Always will, always will

All the rain in this town

And still the sky is blue

Saint James Square is teeming with doves

And that sunset they flew

Across the darkening city

To an attic room for two

All the umbrellas in London

Couldn't hide my love for you

I counted all the lights

They don't shine as bright

They don't pierce the night like you do

Like you do, like you do

Like you do, like you do