Big Yellow Taxi
By: Counting Crows

They paved Paradise, 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 got 'til it's gone? 
They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot. 

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum 
And they charged the people, a dollar and a half just to see 'em 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? 
They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot. 

Hey Farmer, Farmer, put away your DDT now 
Leave me scars on the apples, but leave me the birds and the bees (please) 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? 
They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot. 

Late last night, I heard the screen door slam 
And a big yellow taxi, took away my old man 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? 
They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot. 
Joni Mitchell