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 bells.
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 the wave on the ground
around 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
I will drink the wine while it is warm
An d 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 eye s,
and I will lose it.
I will have the things that I desire
And my passions flow like
rivers to the sky
But after all the loves of my life
Af ter 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
And now
And now