Jimmy Webb - MacArthur Park

"MacArthur Park" stretches to more than seven minutes and includes lengthy, climactic orchestral intermissions. That's not even the strangest part. That honor goes to the lyrics, whose utter bizarreness can be best summed up by the chorus: "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 I can take it/ 'Cause it took so long to bake it/ And I'll never have the recipe again, oh no."
MacArthur Park是一首長達(dá)七分鐘的歌，中間還有漫長的管弦樂伴奏。但是最奇怪的地方還是在歌詞上面：MacArthur公園在黑暗中融化，綠色的糖霜流下來，有人將這個蛋糕放在雨里，我覺得自己不應(yīng)該拿走它，因為花了很長時間才烤出這個蛋糕，我也永遠(yuǎn)不會知道制作方法。

完整歌詞：
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 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 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!

(break)

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
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

(break)

MacArthur 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, no
Oh no!!