The Last Enchantment
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Whatever Happened To Jimmy Webb ?
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
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!
posted by EL PADRONE at 4:21 am
5 Comments:
So there I was driving across the back of Cardiff in the beautiful Winter sunshine and this came on the radio and punched me right in the head.
What a great song : it's a pity Richard Harris can't sing but I guess that's part of its charm.
And what did happen to Jimmy Webb ?
I used to listen to Donna Summer's version. Gotta get that on my MP3 player.
I hadn't heard it for years. Stopped me dead in my tracks today.
Just ordered a CD of Jimmy Webb performing Jimmy Webb (including this).
This is unlike me ; I normally go for
more rocky stuff. Maybe the mid-life crisis is kicking in !
Incidentally the great Mark Lanegan is from Seattle. Do you know about this guy ?
M.
Vaguely. From the 90's. Nirvana and Soundgarden had my attention.
I think Nirvana had everyone's attention : maybe not mine so much.
Lanegan was with a band called "Screaming Trees". At the moment he's playing with Queens Of The Stone Age but also moonlighting with Greg Dulli in the "Gutter Twins".
Saw them perform in Holland last summer : amazing - very dangerous guys and right on the edge.
M.
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