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. 
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 a-gain,   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 man playing chequers by the trees
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 a-gain,   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 willl lose   it.
I will have the things that I desire  and my passion flow like rivers to the sky,
and after all the loves of my live, oh,  after all the loves  of my life 
I'll be thinking of you     and wondering 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 a-gain,   oh,      no.________________
Oh,      no.________________ Oh,_______________no,_______________
No,                          no,           no,     oh,        no.__________

Circa 1968
Words and Music by Jimmy Webb