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
And you don't know what you 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,
And you don't know what you got
'Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away your DDT
I dont care about spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
And you don't know what you 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?
Listen 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 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 dont want give it-
Why you want give it,
Why you want give it all away?
Hey hey hey
Now you want give it,
Ah she wanna give it
Why she givin it all away
Now now now
i dont wanna give it
why you wanna give it
why you wanna give it all away?
hey hey now
your givin it all
your givin it all away
Hey pave paradise
Put up a parking lot
