what does the cake in the song McArthurs Park represent?

Question

"someone left the cake out in the rain. it took so long to bake it i dont think i can take it any moooore"

Answer 1

Hi soozpeach. What a good question. I remember that song very well, although the sound of it in my head drives me slightly mad. I think that cake has to mean the sum total of this poor loser's whole life. He has tried all that he can to stop taking drugs and get a job, but its all melting like cheap frosting in rain. A mess. A total disaster. Having been there once myself, I speak with some authority. The cake is life, no doubt about it.

Answer 2

It is indeed about a relationship that went bad.

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!

[break]

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

[extended break]

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!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

Answer 3

With You - Linkin Park. This music because I were given decrease from the basketball crew in severe college, or perhaps even with the undeniable fact that the coaches did not desire me round anymore, i became continuously stuck with them emotionally.

Answer 4

the cake IS mcarthur park. it's a real trippy song. it's about the end of a relationship.

Answer 5

nothing