MacArthur Park

Spring was never waiting for us, girl

It ran one step ahead as we followed in a dance

Between the parted pages and we're pressed

In love's hot fevered iron like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

And I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have the recipe again, oh, no

I still see the yellow cotton dress

Foaming like a wave on the ground and 'round your knees

And the birds like tender babies on your hands

And the old men playing checkers by the trees

There will be another song for me for I will sing it

There will be another dream for me someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warm

And never let you catch me looking at the sun

But after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life you'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it

I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it

I will have the things that I desire

And my passions flow like rivers through the sky

But after all the loves of my life, after all the loves of my life

I'll be thinking of you and wondering why

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

And I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have the recipe again

Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no