Donna Summer – MacArthur Park (album version) lyrics

Spring was never waiting for us till it ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance.
Between the parted pages that were pressed,
A love hot, fevered iron like a striped pair of pants.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
And 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...Ah, ha...!

I recall the yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave
On the ground beneath your knees.
Birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
And 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...Ah, ha...!

There will be another song for me for I will sing it.
There would be another dream for me, someone will bring it.
Oh, I will drink the wine while it's warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun.
But after all the loves of my life, after all the loves of my life,
You'll still be the one.

I would 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 in the sky.
And after the loves of my life, oh, after all the loves of my life,
You'll still be the one, yeah.

(Instrumental break)

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
And 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...
Oh, no...
Oh, no...!