Big Yellow Taxi - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Adam Duritz]

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]

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

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]

Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Verse 2: Adam Duritz]

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

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]

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

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]

Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Verse 3: Adam Duritz]

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT

I don't care about spots on my apples, leave me the birds and the bees

Please

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]

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

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]

Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Musical Interlude]

[Bridge: Adam Duritz]

Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi took my girl away

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]

Now, 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-na-na, 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

Why not? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Hey, hey, hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]

Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Bridge: Adam Duritz, Adam Duritz & Vanessa Carlton]

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

'Cause you wanna giving it all away

No, no

I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it

Why you wanna give it all away

'Cause you're giving it all, giving it all away

Yeah, yeah

[Outro: Vanessa Carlton & Adam Duritz]

Why do you want me?

Why do you want to?

'Cause you're givin' it all away, hey, hey, hey

La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot

La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la