Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one g step ahead
As we followed in the danceBetween the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pantsMacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rainI 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 nooooooI recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
Birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers, by the treesMacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rainI 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 noooooo(Short instrumental interlude)There would be another song for me
For I will sing it
There would be another dream for me
Someone will bring itI 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 oneI 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 skyAnd after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you - and wondering why(Longer instrumental interlude)MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rainI 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 noooooo, o-oh no-ooooo