Spring was never waiting for us, boy, it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance. Between the parted pages that were pressed, A love hot fevered like a striped pair of pants. MacArthur Park is melting through the park, 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 find that recipe again, oh no! I recall the yellow cotton dress flowing like a wave On the ground around your knees And birds, like tender babies in your hands And the old men playing checkers by the trees MacArthur Park is melting through the park, 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 find that recipe again, oh no! There will be another song for me For I will sing it And 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 For 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 But I'll have the things that I desire And my pa**ion flow like rivers through the sky But after all the loves of my life after all the loves of my life I'll be thinking of you And wondering why MacArthur Park is melting through the park, all the sweet, green icing flowing down. Someone left my 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!