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Richard Harris lyrics : "Macarthur Park"

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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