MacArthur Park

Spring was never waiting for us, boy,

it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance.

Between the parted pages that were pressed,

A love hot fevered like a striped pair of pants.

MacArthur Park is melting through the park,

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 find that recipe again, oh no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress flowing like a wave

On the ground around your knees

And birds, like tender babies in your hands

And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting through the park,

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 find that recipe again, oh no!

There will be another song for me

For I will sing it

And 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

For 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

But I'll have the things that I desire

And my passion 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 through the park,

all the sweet, green icing flowing down.

Someone left my 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 that recipe again, oh no!