Macarthur Park
Maureen McGovern

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.

I recall the yellow cotton dress,
It was 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 Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet, green icing flowing down.
Oh, 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.

There will be another song for me,
For I will sing it.
There will be another dream for me,
Oh, 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, little girl.

I will take my life into my hands,
I will use it.
I will win the worship in their eyes,
Oh, and I will lose it.
I will have the things that I desire,
And my passion flow like,
Rivers through the skies.
After all the loves of my life,
After all the loves of my...
I'll be thinking of you,
And wondering why.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet, green icing flowing down.
Oh, 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.
Noooo!


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  's Wonderful   (I've Got) Beginner's Luck   A Corner of Heaven With You   A Sleepin' Bee   Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive/get Happy   All The Way   And This I Find Is Beautiful   And When I Die   Angel on My Shoulder   Another Woman in Love   Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home   Anyone Who Had a Heart   Are You There   Are You There (With Another Girl)   Baby I'm Yours   Bedtime Story   Beginner's Luck   Blue on Blue   By Strauss   By The Time I Get To Phoenix   Can You Read My Mind   Can You Read My Mind [From Superman]   Can't Take My Eyes Off You   Can't You Hear The Song   Carolina Moon   Clap Yo' Hands   Come Rain or Come Shine   Confession   Darlene   Different Worlds   Different Worlds (Theme From Angie)   Different Worlds [From Angie]   Different Worlds [Theme from the TV Series Angie]   Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead   Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead   Don't Like Goodbyes   Don't Try To Close A Rose   Embraceable You   Fascinating Rhythm   For All We Know   Give Me A Reason To Be Gone   Gonna Get Along Without You Now   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   He's A Rebel   Here You Come Again   How Do You Keep the Music Playing?   How Do You Keep the Music Playing? [Best Friends]   How Long Has This Been Going On?   I Could Have Been a Sailor   I Got Rhythm   I Like You, You're Nice   I Remember   I Will   I Won't Last A Day Without You   I Wonder What You're Like   I'll Never Say Goodbye   I'm Happy Just To Dance With You   If I Wrote You A Song   In Too Deep   It Might As Well Stay Monday   It Might As Well Stay Monday (From Now On)   It Might Be You   It Might Be You [Tootsie Roll Club Mix]   It's All In The Game   It's Only A Paper Moon   Let's Fall In Love   Let's Take A Walk Around The Block   Life's A Long Way To Run   Like a Lover   Like a Sunday Morning   Little Boy Lost   Little Jazz Bird   Long Ago (And Far Away)/all The Things You   Long Ago (And Far Away)/All the Things You Are   Long Ago /all The Things You Are   Love Is Here To Stay/of Thee I Sing   Love Walked In   Lullaby Of Broadway   Make Me Rainbows   Make the Man Love Me   Midnight Storm   Morning After   Morning After [From The Poseidon Adventure]   My Shining Hour   Naughty Baby   Nice To Be Around   Night Flight   On My Way to You   Optimistic Voices   Optimistic Voices (for the film The Wizard of Oz) ...   Ordinary Miracles   Our Love Is Here to Stay [Live]   Out of This World   Over the Rainbow   Porgy, I's Yo' Woman Now   Put a Little Love Away   Put Your Head On My Shoulder   Rainy Days   Right as the Rain   Rocky Raccoon   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Sincerely   Skylark   Some Other Time   Somebody Loves Me   Something I Thought I'd Never Do   Sometime Soon   State of the Heart   Stiff Upper Lip   Strike Up the Band   Summertime   Swingin' On A Star   Thanks For The Memory   The 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin' Groovy)   The Christmas Song   The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open ...   The Circle Game   The Continental   The Ding Dong the Witch is Dead   The Island   The Long And Winding Road   The Man I Love   The Man That Got Away/stormy Weather/blues   The Morning After   The Morning After (Theme from The Poseidon Adventu...   The Morning After [From The Poseidon Adventure]   The Morning After [Song from The Poseidon Adventur...   The Nearness of You   The Same Moon   The Summer Knows   The Times They Are A-changin'   The Way We Were/where Do You Start?   The Windmills of Your Mind   The Windmills of Your Mind [The Thomas Crown Affai...   They All Laughed   They Can't Take That Away From Me   Things Are Looking Up   Things We Said Today/for No One   Until It's Time For You To Go   Very Special Love   We Could Have It All   We May Never Love Like This Again   We May Never Love Like This Again (Theme From ''Th...   We May Never Love Like This Again [From Towering I...   When You Wish Upon a Star / Over the Rainbow   When You Wish Upon A Star/over The Rainbow   Why Can't I Forget?   Why Can't I?   Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?   Yes, I'm Ready   You Belong to Me   You Can Close Your Eyes   You Don't Have To Say You Love Me   You Must Believe in Spring   You'll Never Know   You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me

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