McArthur Park - Donna Summer

"MacArthur Park"

  

Spring was never waiting for us dear

 It ran one step ahead

 As we followed in the dance

 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, nooooo

 I recall the yellow cotton dress

 Foaming like a wave

 On the ground beneath your knees

 The birds like tender babies in your hands

 And the old men playing chinese 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, nooooo

 MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark

 All the sweet green icing flowing down

 Someone left my cake out in the rain

 I don't think that I can take it

 'Cause it took so long to make it

 And I'll never have that recipe again

 Oh, nooooo

"MacArthur Park" is written and composed by Jimmy Webb. Although it was a commercial success several times after its initial release, "MacArthur Park" has been called the worst song ever written. Its flowery lyrics and metaphors (most famously, lost love being likened to a cake left out in the rain) have been described as "polarizing" and "loopy." Webb commented: "Those lyrics were all very real to me: there was nothing psychedelic about it to me. The cake, it was an available object. It was what I saw in the park at the birthday parties."