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MacArthur Park Lyrics

Artist: Richard Harris
Album: 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)

Comments/Interpretations
by Laura on 5/25/2008 7:25am One of the greatest and most beautiful songs, a true classic.
by Sissy Haas on 6/2/2008 11:46am I think this 7 minute song is one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century. It is like a short symphony, with beautiful words, a harp concerto, a drum concerto and a piano that sounded like steel drums, all rolled up into a fast movement, a slow movement and a rousing crescendo. And to top off all this, the singer conveyed deep emotion while holding the notes and pronouncing all the words clearly. I’ve never heard a performance of this song as good as its original, sung by Richard Harris. If that is really him holding lower A at the end (as the sources claim), his vocal range is almost beyond belief.
by dormouse on 6/21/2008 5:45pm MACARTHUR PARK (Richard Harris version) is the best tribute I know, at least in English, to the ineffable memory of Lost (usually the first) love. Well maybe TAXI is a close second.
by Stourley Kracklite on 6/23/2008 4:11pm "In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants" Now that's greatness.
by lolwut on 7/4/2008 1:03am this song is da shiznitt
by Stallion on 7/11/2008 12:14pm This song is very touching and has a great message, cake can always melt so be very careful. Best Song ever*
by Audrey on 7/28/2008 11:12am MACARTHUR PARK (Richard Harris) This has been my favorite song for many years, I truly love the way we each see it differently.
by lupe on 8/7/2008 4:13pm i think the true lesson in the song is to always right down your good cake recipes.
by Bill/Bill on 8/13/2008 2:17pm One of our all time favorite songs, the demented rambling of a severly alcoholic has been.
by Jean on 4/13/2009 8:05am Truly a great modern song. The music is just superb. That phrase "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." is a real puzzler.
by Soup24 on 7/23/2009 5:16am This is a song most people will never forget. Did you know Richard Harris is the first Dumbledore in Harry Potter. Some will never understand the true meaning of this song.But others will embrace it for the rest of their lives.
by garyhope on 9/29/2009 11:56pm "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 was ROFL when I first heard this. Hilarious.

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