A Pitcher Of Summer Lyrics - Singles - Kayo Dot

One morning, before the leaves began changing 

I caught a piece of summer and poured it into a pitcher; 

This I placed in the cellar on a shelf collecting dust . 

Autumn, then winter, rose up from the sea, and my 

Garden was a garden filled with unbroken snow. 

No flower strained its face to the ice giants' whisper, 

No life coloured the vision of a newborn Spring babe. 

My cellar-water dripping into a pail 

And I lifted my piece of summer 

Like a piece of memory or a dream 

Like these, caught on film 

And carried it to the garden floes, 

The wind turning drifting stars to madness. 

Poured forth gracefully, this ctheric tincture 

Lifts winter's coat-of-arms with coaxing aromas and electricity. 

Used with vigilance, a Pitcher of Summer stirs a memory into swooning, 

And bravely, the flowers of the past will stretch their limbs into the sky 

While snow falls quietly all around.