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Originally Posted by jwys_soapbox
It does make sense--the opposite of "old man" is "ol' lady," but the replacement doesn't lend itself to the melody occupied by "old man"--too many syllables. You could just "lady" ("took away my lady"). One could say don't screw with the original and just ignore the gender specificity (I remember thinking "what balls" when I heard Everclear covering Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" years ago) and Lindsey could always say he felt it appropriate to leave it the way it was because it reminded him of the sudden loss of his father--the big yellow taxi being a figure for death in that reading.
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I always thought the original was about her father being taken away in an ambulance. So I was curious about everyone's take on the lyrics change. Perhaps Lindsey felt he had done that subject justice with the more intense Street of Dreams and wanted to have fun with this one, to reflect the more upbeat atmosphere of the song.