Kick Over the Traces

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to, do you know?
Do you get what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you there's no open door.
What are you hoping for, do you know?

Once we were standing still in time,
Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds.
And you knew how I loved you but my spirit was free,
Laughing at the questions that you once asked of me.
Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to, do you know?

Now looking back at all we planned,
We let so many dreams just slip through our hands.
Why must we wait so long before we see
How sad the answers to those questions can be?

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to, do you know?
Do you get what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you there's no open door.

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 got til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Hey farmer farmer put away that DDT. (now)
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got til it's gone?
They paved paradise put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard a screen door a slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man...
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone.