MA MUSIQUE: Richard Harris - MacArthur Park

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MA MUSIQUE: Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
by Darius Kadivar
21-Oct-2008
 

Actor Richard Harris sings one of the emblematic songs of the late 60's and early Seventies, MacArthur Park:

Another Beautiful Version by Jimmy Web ( the original composer who wrote it for Harris):

Lyrics:

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

[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 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

[Chorus]

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.

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, no
Oh NO!!

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friskycatdad THANK YOU

by Darius Kadivar on

Thank you for allowing me to suggest it.

Merci From France, ;0)

DK


friskycatdad

I posted this video

by friskycatdad on

How honored I am that you posted my posting of MacArthur Park.

 

It came from my YOUTUBE page, my id is JADTUBE.

 

Thank you.   It really is very beautiful.

 

Jim


American Wife

oh no!

by American Wife on

I loved Richard Harris.... awesome actor.  But man... that song was the pits...lol.

I remember hearing it and thinking... adults think OUR music is weird?

But I still love Richard Harris!