A Pitcher Of Summer lyrics

Artist  : Kayo Dot 
Song : A Pitcher Of Summer
 

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.