They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

With a pink hotel, a botique, and a swinging hot spot 用粉红色的酒店， botique和摆动热点

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

   

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum 他们把所有的树木，把时间在树上博物馆

And then they charged all the people 然后他们收取所有的人

twenty-five bucks just to see 'em 25块钱正好看见他们

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

   

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now 嘿农民，农民，收起你现在滴滴涕

Give me spots on my apples 给我点上我的苹果

but leave me the birds and the bees, please 但给我留下的鸟类和蜜蜂，请

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

   

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

   

Late last night I heard the screen door slam 昨晚我听见屏幕关门

And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man 和一个大的黄色出租车带走我的老男人

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

   

Don't it always seem to go 不要它似乎总是去

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 你不知道你有什么，直到它消失

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 他们铺就的天堂，挂上一个停车场

Hey, they steamrolled paradise... for a parking lot 嘿，他们压倒的天堂......在一个停车场