Big Yellow Taxi

(by : Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton)

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got til its gone

They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

And put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people

A dollar and a half to seem 'em

Don't it always seem to go,

That you don't know what you've got

Til its gone

They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer

Put away the DDT 

I don't care about spots on my apples

Leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Til its gone

They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot

Hey, now they paved paradise

To put up a parking lot

Why not?

Listenin' late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Took my girl away

Now, don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey now, now

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got 

Til its gone

They paved paradise

To put up a parking lot

I don't want give it

Why you want give,

Why you want give it all away?

Hey hey hey

Now you want give it,

Ah she want to give it 

Cause she givin' it all away

Now now now

Hey pave paradise

Put up a parking lot