[94] 88. Beggars Opera - MacArthur Park / The Witch

[1994] 88. Beggars Opera - MacArthur Park / The Witch 

Beggars Opera - Pathfinder ('72, 3rd) 

1. Hobo [4:40] 

2. MacArthur Park [8:20] 

3. The Witch [5:26] 

4. Pathfinder [3:44] 

5. From Shark to Haggis [6:38] 

6. Stretcher [4:50] 

7. Madame Doubtfire [4:15] 

Martin Griffiths - lead vocals 

Alan Park - keyboards 

Ricky Gardiner - lead guitar and vocals 

Gordon Sellar - acoustic guitar & bass guitar and vocal 

Ray Wilson - drums 

2. MacArthur Park 

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 

(CHORUS) 

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 

Olaying checkers by the trees 

(CHORUS) 

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 

(CHORUS) 

Oh no, no no, oh no