MacArthur Park

Spring was never waiting for us,
 It ran one step ahead
 As we followed in the dance
 Between the parted pages and were pressed
 In love's hot, fevered iron
 Like a striped pair of pants
 MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
 All the sweet, green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 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!
 I recall the yellow cotton dress
 Foaming like a wave
 On the ground around your knees
 The birds, like tender babies in your hands
 And the old men playing checkers by the trees
 MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
 All the sweet, green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 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
 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
 And 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 passion flow like rivers through the sky
 And after all the loves of my life
 After all the loves of my life
 I'll be thinking of you
 And wondering why
 MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
 All the sweet, green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 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!
 Oh, no
 No, no
 Oh no!!