Macarthur Park Lyrics

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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS



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.

Chicago or even
"Classical Gas" by Mason Williams>

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!! (upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change)