We Didn't Start The Fire!

[hemybel]

"We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu and "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...





<_<

When you caught 2 kids fighting what do they say?
"He started it..."

History is longer than you think.

[Life of a Salesman]

I love Billy Joel&#39;s music, but this song really isn&#39;t very good...

[communist fanatic]

Doesn&#39;t make any sense to call out a series of names without explaining their meaning. It&#39;s one of the worst songs ever. Can&#39;t believe it made it to #1.

[Sir Aunty Christ]

It&#39;s the only Billy Joel song I like. I was six when it came out and have nice memories watching the video on MTV with my dad.


Doesn&#39;t make any sense to call out a series of names without explaining their meaning. It&#39;s one of the worst songs ever. Can&#39;t believe it made it to #1.

In the video there&#39;s a calender which changes according to the decade. The names are of things/people that were big in each decade starting in the 40s I think.

[ComradeOm]

Meh I like it. It has a sense of history. Here&#39;s a tip though - don&#39;t ever try it in karaoke <_<

[Freigemachten]

GAh, in 8th grade we had to look up the meaning of every fuckin part of that song, it took forfuckinever. as a class we had to have each part and my teacher ended up givin me all the parts that had to do with communists and anti communists (this was a under a year before i had any political convictions) leanred somestuff, but the entire time she had the song playin in the backround, i wanted to take the stereo to a driving range. Fore&#33;

[amanondeathrow]

I remember this was on the list of VH1&#39;s worst songs, and it really pissed me off. It may not be that great of a song, but its still a decent tune.