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 * Big Yellow Taxi By Joni Mitchell**

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 till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot || The message is about that you don't know what you have until it's gone like her 'old man' (her husband) and also the trees that you have to pay to see now. They destroyed a wonderful place and made it all bad and they made you pay to see trees. It makes me feel horrible. It's stupid that they made people pay to see trees. It makes me feel angry that they are cutting down trees that they don't even own and making you pay for it. It makes me feel angry because everyone is wanting to wreck our wonderful paradise and ruining it and making us pay, when you could have seen it for free before. People getting rid of paradise and nature and trees and what's the point of paying $25 to see wildlife if you can just go see it and not put up parking lots. It make me feel angry to make you pay to see trees that you should be able to see for free. They are just greedy. They are ruining paradise. You don't get to see things you want to see because they are gone before you get to them.see You don't know what you've got until it is gone. You take them for granted. When they are gone you miss them and you wish you could have them back. It about people putting up a parking lot and a pink hotel instead of the trees. Telling you you don't know what you have until it's gone. Like the woman and the trees. Now you have to pay to see the trees in the museum. Maybe don't make the wrong choices becasue you don't know what could happen next, like the woman. She lost what she wanted. You get it but then it's gone. Like the husband part, they fought but then he was gone. ||
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