We Didn’t Start the Fire

Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” was featured on his album Storm Front, which was released in 1989.  Since then, the fire he wrote about has spread, many new fires have been ignited, and not very many have been put out.  So I’ve written updated lyrics and am posting this video of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” for those who may not be familiar with the song. 

“We Didn’t Start the Fire”  1985-2007

Clarence Thomas, Tammy Faye, Nicaragua, Dr. J
Ferris Bueller, Bryant Gumbel, Achille Lauro

Bud McFarlane, Donald Regan, Ollie North on television
Arm the Contras, Sandanistas, Nancy just says no

Pentagon, Star Wars, Mike Tyson, WalMart stores,
Libya, Berlin disco, Cross this line and die

Iran-Contra, Springsteen, England’s got an old queen
Weinburger, Poindexter, See ya Gipper, goodbye

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

Kremlin plotters, Moscow, Communism must go
Arafat, Intifada, Jihadist talk

Cuomo, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Fabio
Dow stalls, dollar falls, Thousand Points of Light

Feinstein, Celine, Cleveland’s got a winning team
Charles Bronson, World B. Free, Magic Johnson, HIV

Kuwait, Desert Storm, Coalition, Stormin’ Norm
Ethnic cleansing, Bosnia, Siege of Sarajevo 

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

Clinton, Newt attack, O.J. Simpson, maniac
NAFTA dogma, slaughter in Somalia

Whitewater, Limbaugh, blow jobs are against the law
Dead bodies, in a ditch, victims of Milosevic
Jerry Falwell’s Fatwa, oral sex, Monica
Katherine Harris, uh oh, Recount is a no-go

PNAC, RNC, burying democracy
9/11, Towers go, Rovians go psycho

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

Niger, UN, Bush lies to the nation
CENTCOM, Tommy Franks, illegal invasion

Bin Laden of Arabia, BushCo terror mania
Blackwell, Diebold men, Bush and Cheney “win” again 

Conyers should read Malcolm X, Men’s room politician sex
Bill of Rights blown away, what else do I have to say

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

Glen Beck on CNN, Fascism is back again,
Chickenhawk big talk, right wing hate, oil stock
Rudy, Romney, Palestine, Rapture watchers see a sign
Cheney wants to nuke Iran, chaos in Afghanistan

Hope has died, Darfur cried, monks in Burma, genocide
Crushing debts, slandered Vets, FOX, sordid war profits
Blackwater’s on foreign shores, Hell has opened wide it’s doors
Billions more for endless wars, 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 tried to fight it

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  1. But let’s keep trying to put it out.

    • RiaD on October 14, 2007 at 17:10

    ::stands applauding::

    Always loved that song…my kids would do ‘shows’ for us, skits & costumes, singing songs- this was one they repeated endlessly.
      Thanks!

  2. I think we’re trying to put out the fire — so far, D.C. ain’t hearing us, but we’ll  keeping trying.

    • Alma on October 14, 2007 at 18:18

    I didn’t know you had such an excellent singing voice. 😉

    I’ll keep plugging away as always, along with everyone else here.

    p.s.  Missed you at the meeting yesterday.  Are you ever coming back?

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  4. I mean really do with a life?

  5. It’s going to take a lot of fire extinguishers to get the arsonist-in-chief’s fires under control, especially with congressional dems blowing hot air to fan the flames. 

    • Temmoku on October 14, 2007 at 21:25

    Rambo and Dirty Harry syndrome, with a large dollop of Hubris from Bush’s silver spoon.

    • Temmoku on October 14, 2007 at 22:24

    Simply great on both sites.


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    But when you think about it, it IS where the fire starts!

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