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 noooooooooooo      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 still be thinking of you   And wondering why      *long instrument sequence*      Chorus      Oh nooooooooooooo   Noooooooooooooooo   Oh Noooooooooooooooooo