Easter Theatre

About Easter Theatre

"Easter Theatre" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released as the lead single from their 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1. According to Partridge, the lyrics were an attempt to match a "muddy" ascending chord progression. "There's the little melodic figure at the beginning, which I thought sounded medieval and earthy, combined with placid, droning high keyboard chords, which sound like you're floating—so it suggested floating over a land."He considered "Easter Theatre" one of the few "perfect songs" of his career, feeling that he had "exorcized a lot of those kind of Lennon-and-McCartney, Bacharach-and-David, Brian Wilson type ghosts out of my system by doing all that. " He jokingly apologized for "the fake Brian May guitar solo ... I thought it was really incongruous, but everyone thought I should leave it." Demo and instrumental versions of the song appear on Homespun (1999) and Instruvenus (2002), respectively. more »

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1999

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Gold sun rolls around 
Chocolate nipple brown 
Tumble from your arms 
Like the ground your breasts swell 
Land awake from sleep 
Hares will kick and leap 
Flowers climb erect 
Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth 

[Chorus]

Stage left 
Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk 
Stage right 
Now the son has died, the father can be born 
Stand up 
If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke 
New life 
We'd applaud a new life 

Odin mounts the tree 
Bleeds for you and me 
Splashing on the lamb 
Gamboling with spring's step 
Buds will laugh and burst 
Racing to be first 
Turning all the soil 
As the promptress fingers through her spinning script 

[Chorus]

Easter, in her bonnet 
Easter, in her hair 
Easter, are the ribbons 
She tied everywhere

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XTC

XTC was a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1977 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and "Senses Working Overtime" (1982), but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical (rather than commercial) success. more »

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