We Didn't Start The Fire

Album: released as a single (2023)
Charted: 52 94
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  • Captain Planet, Arab Spring
    L.A. riots, Rodney King
    Deepfakes, earthquakes
    Iceland volcano
    Oklahoma City bomb
    Kurt Cobain, Pokemon
    Tiger Woods, MySpace
    Monsanto, GMOs

    Harry Potter, Twilight
    Michael Jackson dies
    Nuclear accident
    Fukushima, Japan
    Crimean peninsula
    Cambridge Analytica
    Kim Jong Un
    Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man

    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're tryin' to fight it

    More war in Afghanistan
    Cubs go all the way again
    Obama, Spielberg
    Explosion, Lebanon
    Unabomber, Bobbitt, John
    Bombing, Boston Marathon
    Balloon Boy, War On Terror
    QAnon
    Trump gets impeached twice
    Polar bears got no ice
    Fyre Fest, Black Parade
    Michael Phelps, Y2K
    Boris Johnson, Brexit
    Kanye West and Taylor Swift
    Stranger Things, Tiger King
    Ever Given, Suez

    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're tryin' to fight it

    Sandy Hook, Columbine
    Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
    ISIS, LeBron James
    Shinzo Abe blown away
    Meghan Markle, George Floyd
    Burj Khalifa, Metroid
    Fermi paradox
    Venus and Serena

    Michael Jordan, 23
    YouTube killed MTV
    SpongeBob
    Golden State Killer got caught
    Michael Jordan, 45
    Woodstock '99
    Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore
    I can't take it anymore

    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're tryin' to fight it

    Elon Musk, Kaepernick
    Texas failed electric grid
    Jeff Bezos, climate change
    White rhino goes extinct
    Great Pacific garbage patch
    Tom DeLonge and aliens
    Mars rover, Avatar
    Self-driving electric cars
    SSRIs
    Prince and The Queen die
    World Trade, second plane
    What else do I have to say?

    We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it up)
    It was always burning since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it up)
    But when we are gone, it will still go on
    And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
    We didn't start the fire (fire)
    It was always burning since the world's been turning Writer/s: Billy Joel
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Glen Schmidt from West MichiganThe years on the cover art start with 1989, so The Simpsons DOES fit the sequel song.

    Also, Keaton Batman is 1989. And Michael Jordan, 23 is from 1984.
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