Someone left the cake out in the rain

January 5, 2014

Is there a sillier song lyric? I mean, seriously, is there? I hadn’t heard MacArthur Park in years until it came up on my Sirius rotation the other day. I have NO idea what it means.  Click HERE for it.  Lyrics are below.

But maybe you know a sillier song?

Tell you what. Share it here in the comments section and I’ll do a giveaway.

Riley (my adorable maltipoo) will choose a winner at random from all the comments here on the blog.  Just add your silliest song candidate. Thanks!

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
and 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
and 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!

(BRIDGE)
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 Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down…
Someone left the cake out in the rain
and 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!

13 comments on “Someone left the cake out in the rain
  1. Love is like oxygen
    Ya get too much ya get too high
    not enough and you’re gonna die.
    I think this was from a British Band in the late ’70s called The Sweet

  2. Laura Kennedy says:

    Horse with No Name, by America. All-time, world-class stupid song. “In the desert you can remember your name
    ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain
    La, la …”

  3. The lyrics to that Jimmie Webb song are as deep or meaningful as the symbolism one would give to them. For me, since the song came out in spring 1968, was an analogy for my graduation from high school in June of that year. Dr. King had been murdered a couple months before and Bobby Kennedy, whom I campaigned for in California for the presidential nomination was murdered a week before my graduation. American cities everyone were going up in flames. And I was watching each of my non-college bound friends, one by one, being drafted and sent to Viet Nam. So the party cake that we all ate from in our care-free school days was quickly “melting in the dark”, the sweet green icing frosting was “flowing down” and we knew we’d never “have that recipe again”.

  4. Valerie Rind says:

    Everyone knows all the words to Don McLean’s “American Pie.”

    It’s not a silly song; it’s about the tragic death of Buddy Holly and others in a plane crash.

    We all sing it as if we know exactly what it means. Yet McLean has never confirmed any of the different interpretations of the lyrics that commentators have proposed.

    Bye, bye, Miss American Pie,
    Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
    Them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
    Singing “This’ll be the day that I die.
    “This’ll be the day that I die.”

    • admin says:

      I love that song. Some of the lyrics evoke the time so perfectly, then again, you’re right, he never talked about its meaning.

  5. Whenever someone says “silly song” the first thing that comes to mind is “Good Morning, Starshine” from Hair.

    La da da da , da da da , da da da , da da da da da
    da da da, da da da, da da da da, da da da da da.

    Good morning starshine
    The earth says hello
    You twinkle above us
    We twinkle below

    Good morning starshine
    You lead us along
    My love and me as we sing
    Our early morning singing song

    Gliddy gloop gloopy
    Nibby nobby nooby
    La la la lo lo
    Sabba sibby sabba
    Nooby abba dabba
    Le le lo lo
    dooby ooby walla
    dooby abba dabba
    Early morning singing song

    Good mornin’ starshine
    There’s love in your skies
    reflecting the sunlight
    in my lovers eyes

    Good morning starshine
    so happy to be
    My love and me , as we sing
    Our early morning singing song

    Gliddy gloop gloopy
    Nibby nobby nooby
    La la la lo lo
    Sabba sibby sabba
    Nooby abba dabba
    Le le lo lo
    dooby ooby walla
    dooby abba dabba
    Early morning singing song

    (music interlude)

    Can you hear me?

    Singing a song
    Loving a song

    And let us not forget part of Blondie’s “Call Me”:

    Colour me your colour, baby
    Colour me your car
    Colour me your colour, darling
    I know who you are
    Come up off your colour chart
    I know where you’re comin’ from…

  6. Bouncin Barb says:

    I’m with you Carol. This one takes “the cake”..lol

  7. “Everybody Wang Chung tonight”.
    How exactly one wang chungs, I could never figure out.

  8. Audrey says:

    Never understood ‘He Ain’t Heavt, He’s My Brother’ http://www.metrolyrics.com/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother-lyrics-hollies.html

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