I think you’re thinking of another of her songs - unless you think the writing in “Big Yellow Taxi” was vapid and lyrical at the same time. (Late last night she heard the screen door slam and a “Big Yellow Taxi” took away her “old man.” Now “don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone - they pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Doo wah wah wah wah.” Also included in the song is the line about “putting all the trees in a tree museum and charging a dollar and a half just to see ‘em.”) It does have a catchy tune, though.
Indeed I do.
The primary purpose of a lyric is that it fits the music and that it rhymes and scans. If it also contains a memorable turn of phrase or an interesting verbal pattern like alliteration - "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot" - (5 p's in 12 syllables) then it's a bonus.
The lyrics for Jim Morrison's "Love Me Two Times" or T. Rex's "Mambo Sun" aren't deep, but they are lyrical.