MacArthur Park - 小柳ゆき

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小柳ゆき、カバー楽曲シングル! 70年代にディスコミュージックの第一人者として活躍し、ディスコクイーンと呼ばれ、今年亡くなられた米国人歌手、ドナ・サマーの大ヒット曲「MacArthur Park」に加え、同じく本年亡くなられたホイットニー・ヒューストンの人気曲「All At Once」の2曲を英語でカバー収録。 デビュー間もない2000年に彼女の圧倒的歌唱力で更なる世界を模索し洋楽カバーアルバム『Koyanagi the Covers PRODUCT-1』をリリース。その中に、かねてよりシンパシーを得ていたドナ・サマーの「MacArthur Park」も収録。10年余りの歳月を経て今回、プロデューサーに鳥山雄司氏を迎え、新たに再レコーディングを行い、圧倒的なドナ・サマーの世界を小柳ゆきと鳥山雄司氏が魅力的に表現した作品に仕上がっている。

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MacArthur Park

作詞∶Jimmy Webb
作曲∶Jimmy Webb
歌：小柳ゆき

Spring was never waiting for us, dear
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages
We are pressed in love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur 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 beneath her knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees

MacArthur 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 will be another song for me
And 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 your eyes
And I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passions flow like rivers through the sky
After all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one
And I ask myself why

MacArthur 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!