Big Yellow Taxi.

Politics It's a week until inauguration and while I was in the shower this morning I found myself singing some Joni, specifically Big Yellow Taxi. Metaphorically the lyrics really seem to capture the transition the US and the world is about to go through from the strong, articulate man who's been in the Oval Office this past eight years to [censored]. The stark difference between Obama's compassionate, open, forward looking farewell speech and Trump's behaviour at the press conference do bring to mind at least the first couple of verses:

They paved 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've got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.

If you want a curious visual representation of what Trump's time in office will probably be like, here's the all too literal promo for the Amy Grant cover version:



That point made for completion stake here's the Counting Crows version featuring Vanessa Carlton, looking for all the world like 70s Sarah Jane Smith: