“Summer’s Cauldron” is the first song on XTC’s 1986 album Skylarking. The song is a pastoral invocation of the moments before birth, the warm comfort of being in the womb.
Todd Rundgren produced this record for the band – Virgin Records told them they’d never sell without an American producer and R...
[Verse 1]
Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron
Under mats of flower lava
Please don't pull me out
This is how I would want to go
Breathing in the boiling butter
Fruit of sweating golden inca
Please don't heed my shout
I'm relaxing the undertow
[Chorus]
When Miss Moon lays down
And Sir Sun stands up
Me, I'm found floating round and round
Like a bug in brandy
In this big bronze cup
Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron
Eh!
[Verse 2]
Trees are dancing drunk with nectar
Grass is waving underwater
Please don't pull me out
This is how I would want to go
Insect bomber Buddhist droning
Copper chord of August's organ
Please don't heed my shout
I'm relaxing the undertow
[Chorus]
When Miss Moon lays down (in her hilltop bed)
And Sir Sun stands up (raise his regal head)
Me I'm found floating round and round
Like a bug in brandy
In this big bronze cup
Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron
Summer’s Cauldron was written by Andy Partridge.
Summer’s Cauldron was produced by Todd Rundgren.
XTC released Summer’s Cauldron on Mon Oct 27 1986.