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Artist: Big Yellow Taxi
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Counting Crows
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Counting Crows
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[ Adam Duritz ]
They paved paradise and
put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you
got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and
put up a parking lot
[ Vanessa Carlton ]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[ Adam ]
They took all the trees, and
put em in a tree museum
And they charged the
people a dollar and a half
to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you
got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and
put up a parking lot
[ Vanessa ]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[ Adam ]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your 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
got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and
put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to
put up a parking lot
Why not?
[ Vanessa ]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[ Adam ]
Listen, late last night, I
heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you
got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and
put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you
got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to
put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and
put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[ Vanessa ]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[ Adam, Vanessa ]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away
Hey, paved paradise to
put up a parking lot
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