They prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till it's gone
They prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
Ooh, park, park, park
Ooh, park, park, park, (na-na-na-na)
They took all the trees and put them 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 till it's gone
They prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
Ooh, park, park, park
Ooh, park, park, park
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 prepared in paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
Ooh, park, park, park, (why not?)
Ooh, park, park, park
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 till it's gone
They prepared 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 prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
Why not, they prepared paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey, hey, hey, they prepared in paradise and put up a parking lot
Ooh, park, park, park
Ooh, park, park, park
I don't want to give it, why you want to give it, why you want to give it all away
Hey, hey, hey, now you want to give it, I should want to give it, 'cause you're giving it all away, no, no
I don't want to give it, why you want to give it, why you want to give it all away
'Cause you're giving it all, giving it all away
Why you want it?, why do you want it? ('cause you giving it all away)
La-la-la-la-la
They prepared paradise, put up a parking lot
La-la-la-la-la-la (la-la-la-la-la)
