[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
   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
   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