MacARTHUR PARK by Donna Summer

Spring was never waiting for us, dear

It ran one step ahead

As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages we were pressed

In love's hot, fevered iron

Like a striped pair of pants

Mac Arthur 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 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

Mac Arthur 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 ah ha

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

There'll be another dream for me someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warn

And never let you catch me

Looking at the sun, oh yeh

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves in my life

You'll 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 from the sky

And after all the loves in my life

After all the loves in my life

You'll still be the one

And I'll ask myself why

Mac Arthur 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 ah ha

Written by Jim Webb.