Dangerhair
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'Tay tay' has not yet begun to fight, I sense, you dingus.
Is Big Yellow Taxi a coded subliminal wooing attempt of Vanessa Carlton or am I over- ? this? Also that's not even the band's best cover (Friend of the Devil).
The only thing that's possibly coded about the song is that at the time Joni Mitchell wrote it, she was living in Toronto. At the time as well, the Metropolitan Toronto Police were cracking down on hippies pretty heavily.
Toronto Police cars used to be high-visibility yellow all over, up until the late 1980s. None of the major Toronto cab companies had all-yellow taxis.
Therefore, apocryphally, the line that goes "big yellow taxi took away my old man" is about her partner getting arrested, not just hopping in a taxi and leaving.
Also, who the hell remembers Counting Crows? Rusty really did peak in middle school.
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