2006-06-08 11:10:35 · 7 answers · asked by anna c 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
not donna summer's disco version. i want to hear about the original. and what do you make of the lyrics to mean?
2006-06-08 11:43:39 · update #1
Some people think it described an acid trip. The green icing flowing down was the trees around the park melting while experiencing a trip. The cake might have been the vehicle for the drugs. There were other examples I read somewhere from someone that was hip on the eras drug slang, you might be able to locate it on google.
Another take on it was metaphoric. The cake left out in the rain was a happy memory of a relationship experience in the park that was fading from memory. Never having the recipie again meant that particular feeling or memory could never be replicated.
Personally I think there are elements of both, the acid trip inspiring the metaphors.
2006-06-15 16:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good old 60's song. I liked his version and Donna Summers disco version too. Never made much sense of the lyrics. We used to think it was in relation to an LSD trip, given the era in which it was out. Doesn't make any sense otherwise, to me anyway.
2006-06-09 11:25:53 · answer #2 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a great song, and I suggest listening to Donna Summer's disco version of it.
2006-06-08 18:20:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jenny A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 80s, SCTV did a spoof on the Harris version. Funny stuff!
I like both versions though. (Summers')
Bizarre lyrics.
2006-06-08 18:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Fonzie T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of my favorites, but I can't get it on itunes. Not by Richard Harris, anyway.
2006-06-08 18:19:55 · answer #5 · answered by Bill W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol good song but who in their rite mind would leave a cake in the rain!
2006-06-08 19:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by nic_uym 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know is I'll never find that recipe again...
2006-06-08 18:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by dpawson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋