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
I started off with thinking: This is me. This is who i am going to be.
It was simple.
Ha ha. It's ironic that it turned out to be exactly opposite.
Life was filled with a forest with a lake. Then it went away.
There were no extra people on the slabs.
The tapri was a place of early morning musings
And evening sessions of 'dejhine' talk.
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
We knew you and you knew us.
I miss those days.
It was so obvious.
Work...to feel that satisfaction.
Now it's mundane. We're all alone and it's sad.
Whatever happened to 'all of us'?
Those sunday afternoons.
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Optimism is something I miss.
I love being optimistic
but what do you do when being a realist seems the safer bet?
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
I need chai.
5 comments:
i thought tapriism as an identity happened only at my tapri. 'tapri ways. tapri tales. tapri banes.' now tapri days...
interesting. tapri culture is catching on. it might be bigger than we think. we might just wake up, like ents, and find that we are strong. hehe.
perhaps in the near future in this ironic world people will have to crack exams and be the best to be with the best at the best tapris...
like the IIT-JEE. a new T. a new Tea. a new world order.
maybe we are all true pioneers just by being at the tapri. we are ushering in the age of tapriism.
and i am being realistic.
i need chai too.
ha ha. yes maybe we are ents waiting to be disturbed and awaken
tapriism is a culture amongst all of us and it is a phase we have to go through.
Without it a little bit of our lives go unachieved... truly.
ah yes. but my point is need it be a phase only? and if it is a phase does it have everlasting effects on the way you view life,organizations,corporate lifestyle, or even everyone else not from tapri?
and what if these effects are real. and the number of such affected people grows....
Q: If this was the topic of a social science would you expect it to throw out any sort of surprising results?
** social science project/study **
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