When Jeff and I got into the car this morning and turned the radio to 60’s on 6, they were near the end of the Richard Harris version of “MacArthur Park“. The first lyrics we heard were the dramatic conclusion, as Harris sang:
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
And all I could think was, “why couldn’t he Google the recipe?”
As Bob Dylan put it, the times, they are a-changing.