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[Bm][Bm][C][Em]
[Bm]Spring was never waiting for us, [D]girl, 
it [G]ran one step a[C]head
As we followed in the [Em]dance [G][F][Em]
[Bm]Between the parted pages and were [D]pressed,
In [G]love's hot, fevered [C]iron like a 
striped pair of [Em]pants [G][F][Em]

Mac[A]arthur Park is melting in the [Amaj7]dark
All the sweet, green icing [Em]flowing down...
[D]Someone left the cake out in the [F#m]rain
and I don't [A]think that I can take it
'cause it [Bm7]took so long to bake it
and I'll [A]never have that [Amaj7]recipe a[D]gain
Oh, [C]no!

[Bm]I recall the yellow cotton [D]dress, [G]foaming like a [C]wave
on the ground around your [Em]knees  [G][F][Em]
The [Bm]birds, like tender babies in your [D]hands
and the old men playing [C]checkers by the [Em]trees [G][F][Em]

Mac[A]arthur Park is melting in the [Amaj7]dark
All the sweet, green icing [Em]flowing down...
[D]Someone left the cake out in the [F#m]rain
and I don't [A]think that I can take it
'cause it [Bm7]took so long to bake it
and I'll [A]never have that [Amaj7]recipe a[D]gain
Oh, [C]no!

[D]There will be another song for [F#m]me
For I will [G]sing [Gm]it
[G]There will be another dream for me
Someone will [F#m]bring [D]it
[G]I will drink the wine while it is [Em]warm
and [F#m]never let you catch me looking at the [B7]sun
And [Em]after all the loves of my [D]life
[F#m]after all the  loves of my [G]life
You'll still be the [C]one. [D]

I will [D]take my life into my [F#m]hands
and I will [G]use [Gm]it
[G]I will win the worship in their eyes
and I will [F#m]lose  [D]it
[G]I will have the things that I de[Em]sire
and my [F#m]passion flow like rivers through the [B7]sky.
And [Em]after all the loves of my life
[F#m]After all the  loves of my [G]life 
I'll be thinking of [C]you
and wondering [Bm]why

Mac[A]arthur Park is melting in the [Amaj7]dark
All the sweet, green icing [Em]flowing down...
[D]Someone left the cake out in the [F#m]rain
and I don't [A]think that I can take it
'cause it [Bm7]took so long to bake it
and I'll [A]never have that [Amaj7]recipe a[D]gain
Oh, [C]no!