i get to thinking life is depressing... then i read things like this.

they paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.

what DOES that line mean exactly?

u don't actually believe they put parking lots where old parking lots used to be, do you?

no im asking about the signifcance of the line-if any

they took a good thing and replaced it with something new and insignificant in the ame of progress...

is it really just that obvious?

i'm guessin it is....

wow don't i feel silly

yeah...that's about the size of it. but then the theme of the song is pretty kewl: big yellow taxi. i wonder which came first, the idea that became the chorus or the idea that became the title...