"MacArthur Park" is a song written by American singer and songwriter Jimmy Webb and originally performed by Irish singer, the late Richard Harris, released as a single on December 21, 1967. While not originally villainous, it was later used in the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, being performed by Beetlejuice as he tries again to make Lydia Deetz marry him, and being involuntary joined by Lydia herself, Astrid, Delia, Rory, and a priest as they are under Beetlejuice's influence, in a similar way of the "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" sequence of the first film.
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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'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 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'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 no!
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
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
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 no!
Oh no
No
Oh no!
Other Appearances[]
- The song was featured on the albums A Tramp Shining. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- A cover of the song by the late Donna Summer also appeared in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, both in the film's opening production logos and its closing credits.
- Both versions of the song were featured in the film's soundtrack album Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
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