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| Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Most women of my generation ( I am 48) think this is about Joni's daughter that she surrendered for adoption. I'm a man so I take their word for it. It was too painful even for a great artist like Joni Mitchell to address directly so it's hidden in the lyrics. The big yellow taxi took away her little girl, not her old man. I think anyone who gives up a child knowing you'll never know another thing about her would feel like they don't know what they got 'till it's gone. Joni was tortured by this feeling and it came out in a great song. I'm adopted and I reunited with my maternal birth family after about 37 years. My biological mother died when I was 3. That was about two years after she gave me up. She was run over by a truck. I give Joni Mitchell all the credit in the world for pressing on a giving the big yellow taxi story a new, happier final verse. This song always makes me feel like crying because I secretly know what it's really about. |
submissions
| Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics
| 14 years ago
|
|
Most women of my generation ( I am 48) think this is about Joni's daughter that she surrendered for adoption. I'm a man so I take their word for it. It was too painful even for a great artist like Joni Mitchell to address directly so it's hidden in the lyrics. The big yellow taxi took away her little girl, not her old man. I think anyone who gives up a child knowing you'll never know another thing about her would feel like they don't know what they got 'till it's gone. Joni was tortured by this feeling and it came out in a great song. I'm adopted and I reunited with my maternal birth family after about 37 years. My biological mother died when I was 3. That was about two years after she gave me up. She was run over by a truck. I give Joni Mitchell all the credit in the world for pressing on a giving the big yellow taxi story a new, happier final verse. This song always makes me feel like crying because I secretly know what it's really about. |
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