[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   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   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   x2   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      [Vanessa]   Why you wan it?   x2   da da dada da da da da da