Quote:
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' 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 till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
-Joni Mitchell
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I don't know what can really be done about it. For most of history "they" considered the waterfront to be a bad place and stayed away from it. The waterfront was stinky, cold, wet, and full of undesirables, and only people who had to live there lived there. But as soon as "they" started seeing the waterfront as a good place to live it was all over.