{"id":36344,"date":"2024-02-24T02:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=36344"},"modified":"2024-02-24T02:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T07:08:42","slug":"pop-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/02\/pop-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right, boysengurls, another holiday has emerged from wherever holidays go where they’re not here – Des Moines, perhaps – and so we welcome it with open source and a glad bag, because it’s MacArthur Muzik Day<\/strong>, which means that we must work at least three quotes from the lyrics of Pop Muzik<\/em> or MacArthur Park<\/em> into our conversations today. Nor can we simply blurt them out – they must make at least some sense in the context of the conversation. If you get a strange look, you obviously didn’t try hard enough.<\/p>\n

Should someone recognize the lyric that you used and remark on it, you are obligated to touch your finger gently to their nose tip, smile coquettishly, and say, “Ta, sir!” (even if it’s a woman.) Do not fail to do this<\/em>, because if they realize you’ve neglected this response, they are allowed to dictate what you have for lunch for the next week;<\/strong> the grocery store won’t sell that many cans of Spaghetti-Os with Franks for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

Should someone respond with the lyrics that follow in the song you chose, you must both do the ostrich mating dance<\/a> together for at least thirty seconds – sound effects are optional though. Don’t look at us like that – we<\/em> didn’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

And should the conversation go on as normal without any recognition of something amiss, you are encouraged to brag about it here, as long as you don’t get too cocky. Yes, that’s in the rules too.<\/p>\n

To offer this gentle reminder (though we can’t imagine why you’d need it,) we provide the lyrics to the two songs for which the holiday is named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nMacArthur Park<\/em>, by Richard Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
\nIt ran one step ahead
\nAs we followed in the dance
\nBetween the parted pages and were pressed
\nIn love’s hot, fevered iron
\nLike a striped pair of pants<\/p>\n

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
\nAll the sweet green icing flowing down
\nSomeone left the cake out in the rain
\nI don’t think that I can take it
\n‘Cause it took so long to bake it
\nAnd I’ll never have that recipe again, oh no<\/p>\n

I recall the yellow cotton dress
\nFoaming like a wave
\nOn the ground around your knees
\nThe birds like tender babies in your hands
\nAnd the old men playing checkers
\nBy the trees<\/p>\n

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
\nAll the sweet green icing flowing down
\nSomeone left the cake out in the rain
\nI don’t think that I can take it
\n‘Cause it took so long to bake it
\nAnd I’ll never have that recipe again, oh no<\/p>\n

There will be another song for me
\nFor I will sing it
\nThere will be another dream for me
\nSomeone will bring it
\nI will drink the wine while it is warm
\nAnd never let you catch me
\nLooking at the sun
\nAnd after all the loves of my life
\nAfter all the loves of my life
\nYou’ll still be the one<\/p>\n

I will take my life into my hands
\nAnd I will use it
\nI will win the worship in their eyes
\nAnd I will lose it
\nI will have the things that I desire
\nAnd my passion flow
\nLike rivers through the sky
\nAnd after all the loves of my life
\nOh, after all the loves in my life
\nI’ll be thinking of you
\nAnd wondering why<\/p>\n

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
\nAll the sweet green icing flowing down
\nSomeone left the cake out in the rain
\nI don’t think that I can take it
\n‘Cause it took so long to bake it
\nAnd I’ll never have that recipe again
\n(Oh no, oh no)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nPop Muzik<\/em>, by M<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nGet up, get down
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)<\/p>\n

Radio, video
\nBoogie with a suitcase
\nYou’re living in a disco
\nForget about the rat race
\nLet’s do the Milkshake
\nSelling like a hotcake
\nTry some, buy some
\nFee-fi-fo-fum
\nTalk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik<\/p>\n

(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nI want to dedicate it
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nEverybody made it
\n(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nInfiltrate it
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nActivate it<\/p>\n

New York, London, Paris, Munich
\nEverybody talk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)<\/p>\n

Sing it in the subway
\nShuffle with a shoe shine
\nMix me a Molotov
\nI’m on the headline
\nWant to be a gunslinger?
\nDon’t be a rock singer
\nEenie, meenie, miney, mo
\nWhich a-way you wanna go?
\nTalk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik<\/p>\n

(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nRight in betweenie
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nEenie, meenie
\n(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nRight in betweenie
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nYou know what I meanie
\nHit it!<\/p>\n

Now you know when to say
\n(Talk about) Talk about pop muzik
\n(Talk about) Talk about pop muzik
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)<\/p>\n

All around the world
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nWherever you are
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nDance in the street, anything you like
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nDo it in your car in the middle of the night
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nLa-la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nLa-la-la-la, la-la, la
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nLa-la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nLa-la-la-la, la-la, la
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)<\/p>\n

Dance in the supermart
\nDig it in the fast lane
\nListen to the countdown
\nThey’re playing our song again
\nI can’t get “Jumping Jack”
\nI want to hold “Get Back”
\nMoonlight, muzak
\nKnick knack, paddy wack
\nTalk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik<\/p>\n

(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nIt’s all around you
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nThey want to surround you
\n(Shoobie-doobie-doo-wop)
\nIt’s all around you
\n(Pop, pop, shoo-wop)
\nHit it!<\/p>\n

New York, London, Paris, Munich
\nEverybody talk about, mmm, pop muzik
\nTalk about pop muzik
\nTalk about pop, pop muzik
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)<\/p>\n

Now, listen
\nTalk about (Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nTalk about (Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nTalk about the fever
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nDo you read me? Loud and clear
\nHit it down (Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nHit it down, oh no! (Pop, pop, pop muzik)
\nOh no! Oh, talk about
\n(Pop, pop, pop muzik)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See? Shouldn’t be too hard, so jump in! We’re looking forward to hearing your accounts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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