Counting Crows-"Big Yellow Taxi " Music Video


The Counting Crows "Big Yellow Taxi" music video featuring Vanessa Carlton.LYRICS By Joni Mitchell:
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' 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 till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot

They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museumAnd 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've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot

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 till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door swing,
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 till it's 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 till it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not, they paved paradise
They put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna givin it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cuz you're givin it all away, no no

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna givin it all away
Cuz you're givin it all givin it all away yeah yeah
Cuz You're givin it all away hey, hey, hey

Hey, paved paradise, to put up a parking lot
la,la, la, la, la, la, la ,la ,la ,la ,la
Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot







Channel: Music
Uploaded: December 25, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Author: kwbsystems

Length: 00:03:44
Rating: 4.83
Views: 1906114

Tags: parking Crows Carlton paradise lot Taxi paved Yellow Joni Vanessa Counting video Big Mitchell acoustic guitar music

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Video Comments:
jdogtulsa (December 5, 2008 at 4:29 am)
This is the true meaning,as the origional artist went to hawaii, she noticed they tore all the natural beauty out of it, so she wrote this song. its pretty much what the lyrics say, they do have an actual tiny park in the downtown and it was the only place with trees around there and it cost 1.50 to get in....
hitemuppJcruz (December 5, 2008 at 12:43 am)
love this songg
foreveragain13 (December 4, 2008 at 8:53 pm)
yes and no. You can interpret it however you want, but i like to think of it as he lost his girl and he didn't realise how much he loved her till she left (i know how that feels :( )
ZMat3 (December 4, 2008 at 6:32 am)
Is he trying to say that they destroyed the natural beauty of the planet just so they could put up buildings, factories, corporate buildings, etc?

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