Mac Arthur Park   Jimmy Webb, Richard Harris (#1 in 1968, #38 in 1971), Donna Summer (#1 in 1978)

Spring was never waiting for us till, 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'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, nooo!
 
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's 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, nooo!
 
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 yeah and after all the loves of my life
after all 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 through the sky oh 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'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, nooo!