MACARTHUR PARK

Spring was never waiting for us, girl...
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 Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
But 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.
And birds like tender babies in your hands,
The old men playing checkers on a table by the trees.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
But 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 taste the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking in 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 your eyes and I will lose it.
And my passions flow like rivers from the sky.
But after all the loves of my life...after all the loves of my life
I'll still be wondering why.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
But 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!

Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Webb.