MacArthur Park Suite: MacArthur Park/One Of A Kind/Heavens Knows/MacArthur Park Reprise - Donna Summer

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’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!

There will be another song for me

And 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 love’s 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

Oh, and after all the love’s of my life, yeah

After all the love’s of my life

You’ll still be the one

And I’ll ask myself why, yeah

Mac Arthur’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 bake it

And I’ll never have that recipe again

Oh, nooo!

ACT II — One of a Kind

You’re one of a kind

Gotta have ya

Well, you’re one of a kind

I need to have ya

Right from the start

You tore me apart

You took the best part of my heart, aahh!

Body and soul

You took me out of control

You stole the best part of my heart, oooh!

You’re one of a kind

You got magic

I know you’re one of a kind

Baby you’re outstanding

Right from the start

You tore me apart

You took the best part of my heart, aahh!

Body and soul

You took me out of control

You stole the best part of my heart, oooh!

Right from the start

You tore me apart

You took the best part of my heart, aahh!

Body and soul

You took me out of control

You stole the best part of my heart

ACT III — Heaven Knows

Baby please, please don’t take your love from me

I am yours forever more, 'till eternity

Silently, listen to the words I say

I’m not talking just for play, listen to me please

Heaven knows it’s not the way it should be and

Heaven knows it’s not the way it could be and

Don’t you know there’s no need to leave

Heaven knows I never wanna leave you

Heaven knows I only wanna please you

Don’t you know love is what I need

Down inside, don’t get caught with foolish pride

Put all the other things aside, there’s only you and me

Believe in us, we were always meant to be

Me for you and you for me, 'till eternity

Heaven knows it’s not the way it should be and

Heaven knows it’s not the way it could be and

Don’t you know there’s no need to leave

Heaven knows I only wanna love you

Heaven knows I never wanna lose you

Don’t you know love is meant to be

Heaven knows it’s not the way it should be

Heaven knows stop with the pretending

Come on now, hear me when I cry

ACT IV — MacArthur Park

Mac Arthur’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 bake it

And I’ll never have that recipe again

Oh, nooo!