Nicole Henry and five other singers perform a surreal, layered version of MacArthur Park. Their overlapping voices weave through the song's melting imagery and repeated refrains about cake left in the rain, wine, and longing, creating a theatrical take on the classic.
Chapters
1, 2, 1.
Spring was never waiting for us dear. It ran 2 steps ahead as we followed in the dance. Between the parted pages that were pressed, Like love's hot fever, I ran like a striped pair of pants.
My car park is melting in the dark. All that sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I I can take it, 'cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again.
Oh, yeah.
I recall the yellow cotton dress flowing like a wave on the ground beneath your feet.
Birds like tender babies in your hand, and the old men playing checkers by the trees.
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark. All that sweet rain I saw.
I see it 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.
There will be another song for me, and I will sing it.
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 in my life, oh, after all the love in 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, then I will lose it.
I will have the things that I desire.
And my passion flowed like rivers to the sky.
And after all the love in my life, oh, after all the loves in my life, I'll be thinking about you and wondering why.
Why?
The copper park is melting in the dark. All that 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 no.
Oh no. All right! Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you.