Spring was never waiting, for us girl
 It ran one step ahead, as we followed in a 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
 On the sweet green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 And I don’t know if 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 a wave on the ground
 And round your knees
 And the birds like tender babies, in your hand
 And the old men playing checkers by the trees

 MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
 On the sweet green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 And I don’t know if I can take it
 ‘Cause it took so long to bake it
 And I’ll never have the recipe again
 Oh, no

 There will be another song for me
 Someone will bring it
 There will be another dream for me
 Someone will bring it
 I will drink the wine while it’s warm
 And never let you catch me looking in 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 eyes
 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
 After all the loves of my life
 I’ll be thinking of you
 And wondering why

 MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
 On the sweet green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 And I don’t know if I can take it
 ‘Cause it took so long to bake it
 And I’ll never have the recipe again
 Oh, no

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