What do these lyrics to MacArthur Park Mean?

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MacArthur Park
Richard Harris
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
There would be another song for me
For I will sing it
There would 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
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you and wondering why
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

Richard Harris MacArthur Park, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zviti

Donna Summer - MacArthur Park - https://youtu.be/hDD7t2Mj_aQ

[Mack A. Damia]

Long story about the song and Jimmy Webb. The inspiration for the
song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton. When asked by
interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote
the song's lyrics, Webb replied that it was meant to be symbolic and
referred to the end of a love affair.

According to Webb, the splendid, crazy and utterly unforgettable
imagery of his song alludes to the torture of witnessing his ex’s
wedding in the park; a yellow cotton dress, a striped pair of pants,
and of course the cake, melting in the rain, the irrecoverable recipe
a metaphor for lost love.

In an interview with Newsday in October 2014, Webb explained:

"Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's
fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that
was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in
the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical
collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur
Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like
whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto
paper."

The breakup was also the primary influence for "By the Time I Get to
Phoenix", another song written and composed by Webb.

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Good pitch. Just what I was looking for. Just needed a little irony and parody.