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Richard Harris – Macarthur Park lyrics
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'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

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!

[break]

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

[extended break]

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!!
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Songwriters: Jimmy Webb
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    Very sadly the song is regarding the termination of a child. This is on very good authority. A famous person who sang it got drunk and said it's the only reason he sang it as it had a personal attachment to it. I was very young when I learned this and must say it's sone thing that's always stayed with me
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    Someone told me back then (1968-1969) that the song was about a woman having an abortion, or who had an abortion; hence, the cake (arguably a thing of beauty) that was left out in the rain is ruined, or lost. It seemed to make sense. But I was only 9 years old when the song came out, so who the hell knows what it means.
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    About being in love with a most beautiful and amazing woman, and having it all fall apart. The recipe-the ingredients, the enormous effort to do everything right, the rules, the attention to detail, the parts fitting together- was built, flourished, but then ruined. And you will never have the ability to do it again.
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