This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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!
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
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
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
Oh no!
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!
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
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
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
Oh no!
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This will date me, but when this song came out, my girlfriend broke up with me, for no apparent reason. She was the love of my life, and I couldn't understand why she broke up with me. I asked her, and all she could say was "Listen to Macarthur Park, that will explain everything". I must have listened to that song a hundred times, and still couldn't understand. Here it is, 40 years later, and I STILL don't know why she broke up with me. Can anyone explain why, in the context of this song, she broke up with me?? We were young, still in high school, she in a Catholic School and me in a Public School, and she went into the Air Force and I never heard from her again. I still think of her often. Chris, if you are reading this, will you FINALLY explain this to me?!?!?!
bulldog14224 - bit late and I hope you see this but I was that girl! nope now seriously … I think the song lyric says that the guy tried TOO hard. The hilariously written lines "I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it" - I mean if you have to put that much effort in then maybe there's a problem right? And he chose GREEN for the icing for christs sake. Speaks volumes. Must be what she meant ;-)
@bulldog14224 Her taste in music sucked, and you dodged a bullet. But, I'm going to start using "Listen to XXX song" as an excuse to justify all my actions...<br /> <br /> ...hey, Dodge! Why didn't you show up for work for the past three days?<br /> <br /> Listen to "Play That Funky Music, White Boy," and it will explain everything.