Moon in June

Moon in June is Wyatt's piece, and it is the last song with lyrics that Soft Machine recorded. It runs in three parts. The first is a stream-of-consciousness pastiche of vocal themes that changed from one live performance to the next, with Wyatt playing all the instruments. Its words borrow from the earlier songs That's How Much I Need You Now and You Don't Remember, but mostly from vignettes on a demo Wyatt recorded in October 1968 while on holiday in New York state.

The second part is an instrumental for the whole band, close in style to the other jazz-rock pieces on the album. The third is a drone for Wyatt and the violinist Rab Spall, whose part was recorded separately and sped up and slowed down to fit the beats. In this section Wyatt scat-sings uncredited renditions of two Kevin Ayers songs, Singing a Song in the Morning and Hat Song. Rolling Stone quoted its line about background noise for people scheming, seducing, revolting and teaching.

A shortened live version of parts two and three, recorded in London on 24 May 1970, is on the 2002 release Backwards, and a pre-Third performance with a shortened instrumental first part is on the 2000 release Noisette.