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 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
I recall the yellow cotton dress Foaming like a wave On the ground around your knees Birds like tender babies in your hands And the old men playing checkers over 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 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
There would song for me For I will sing it There would be another dream for me Someone will bring it I would 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 will 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 open 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, oh oh! 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 that recipe again