Macarthur Park

(Jim Webb)

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 stripped pair of pants.

Mac Arturh Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green rising flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

But I don't think that I can take it Lord

It took so long to bake it

I'll never had that recipe again, oh no.

I recall the yellow cotton dress

foaming like a wave on the ground around your knees

And birds like tender babies in your hands

The old man playing checkers by the trees.

Mac Arturh Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green rising flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

But I don't think that I can take it Lord

It took so long to bake it

I'll never had that recipe again, oh no.

--- Instrumental ---

There will be another song for me for and I will sing it

There will be another dream for me someone will bring it

I will taste the wine while it is 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

And my passions flow like rivers from the sky

But after all the loves of my life after all the loves of my life

I'll still be along wondering why.

Mac Arturh Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green rising flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

But I don't think that I can take it Lord

It took so long to bake it

I'll never had that recipe again, oh no...