Jimmy Webb - MacArthur Park lyrics

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Spring was never waiting for us, girl<br />

It ran one step ahead<br />

As we followed in the dance<br />

Between the parted pages and were pressed<br />

In love's hot fevered iron<br />

Like a striped pair of pants<br />

<br />

I recall the yellow cotton dress<br />

It was foaming like a wave<br />

On the ground around your knees<br />

The birds, like tender babies in your hands<br />

And the old men playing<br />

Checkers by the trees<br />

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MacArthur Park is melting in the dark<br />

All the sweet green icing flowing down<br />

Oh, someone left the cake out in the rain<br />

And I don't think that I can take it<br />

'Cause it took so long to bake it<br />

And I'll never have that recipe again<br />

Oh, no, oh no<br />

<br />

There will be another song for me<br />

For I will sing it<br />

There will be another dream for me<br />

Oh, someone will bring it<br />

<br />

I will drink the wine while it is warm<br />

And never let you catch me looking at the sun<br />

And after all the loves of my life<br />

After all the loves of my life, you'll still be the one<br />

Little girl<br />

<br />

I will take my life into my hands, I will use it<br />

I will win the worship in their eyes oh and I will lose it<br />

I will have the things that I desire<br />

And my passion flow like rivers through the sky<br />

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And after all the loves of my life<br />

After all the loves of my life<br />

I'll be thinking of you<br />

And wondering why<br />

<br />

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark<br />

All the sweet, green icing flowing down<br />

Oh, someone left the cake out in the rain<br />

And I don't think that I can take it<br />

'Cause it took so long to bake it<br />

And I'll never have that recipe again<br />

Oh no, oh no, no