Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain...

Yet More Jimmy Webb Song Blogging:

Macarthur Park/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...

One of the many great beauties of the song is that the schmaltziness of the metaphors and similes is so extreme and unbelievable that they deconstruct the ideas of "schmaltz" and "kitsch." Nobody could use these metaphors with a straight face. Yet the narrator of the song somehow does