Time to contemplate a musical classic :-)

[LittleNemoNES]

Man this cracks me up every time I hear it:

MacArthur Park via Youtube @ 6m29s

^_^

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!

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-56380.html

"Jimmy Webb:
"MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then."