Flies in Paradise

(PHOTO TAKEN IN MANILA, 2005)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put em in a tree museum
And then they charged all the poeple twenty-five bucks just to see em
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot


Hey farmer, farmer, put away your ddt now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
I say, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi carried off my girl
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot


Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got till its gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Oh, now, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Hey, steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot