The song, Big Yellow Taxi is about taking things for granted and then missing them when theyre gone. In the first verse Joni Mitchell uses Waikiki, Hawaii as an example. It used to be paradise but now its a fakey tourist destination. The line, Took all the trees, put em in a tree museum, charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em refers to Foster Gardens, a place in Waikiki which is basically a tree museum. Its a huge garden full of trees so tall you feel like Alice in Wonderland. Mitchell talked about the song in an interview...I wrote Big Yellow Taxi on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. Thats when I sat down and wrote the song. She included it on her 1970 Ladies Of The Canyon LP.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:53:18 +0000
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