We didnt start the ____

[Ms.Squeakers]

We didnt start the Fire


So this is random..

but what do you think of this song?


I like it because it sorta describes history going on through the years its amazing.


One of my favorites

Here are the lyrics :

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny 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
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana 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

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

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, 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

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

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, 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

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

Hemingway, Eichman, 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
J.F.K. 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

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah'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

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






Any comments? Or another dead thread?


Anyone else heard of this song by Billy Joel??


If not and you have no idea what Im talking about then :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3PVHVn0kE

 

[Babyjustrun]

I love, love, love Billy Joel.
He's amazing.
He's one of my favorites.
I like this song.

 

[taz]

I love this song! Just like, "The Eye of The Tiger"!

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

I love, love, love Billy Joel.
He's amazing.
He's one of my favorites.
I like this song.

I totally agree

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

I love this song! Just like, "The Eye of The Tiger"!

I would like that song,

And I did..


but this really annoying girl that always hurts me (physically) sang that song over and over again really badly

and whenever i hear it it makes me flench like "no i dont wanna get hurt I dont want to be 'testing how strong my arm bone is before it breaks'"

she scares me..

but anway

Yeah she ruined that song for me

 

[O_Look_Its_Steph]

What is the song about really?

 

[xo juicy splash]

I LOVE Billy Joel.
I like Piano Man.

 

[DramaQueen]

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
RYAN started the fire.

(lol)

That song plays all the time @ work and me & my friend are trying to learn the words.
We've got the first three verses down.

 

[Stitch&figment 4 eve]

I really like that song, can't beat Billy Joel. I actually have it on my iPod, and when I saw the title of the thread i immediately thought We Didn't Start the Fire.

 

[Disney.Ears]

Billy Joel = Love.
All his songs are on my iPod. My family are big fans.

What is the song about really?

Everything in history. People, and just all of the things that have like occured.

 

[DisneyGirl421]

I love this song. For my 20th Century History class last fall, my professor gave extra credit to anyone who could not only recite the lyrics but also know what everything meant.

 

[Disney.Ears]

I love this song. For my 20th Century History class last fall, my professor gave extra credit to anyone who could not only recite the lyrics but also know what everything meant.

Did you get the extra credit? LOL.

 

[I'm a Divaaaaa]

Hah, it's so catchy. We used it a lot in American History.

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
RYAN started the fire.

Darn you, you beat me to it!


Anyhoo, ironically so, I was listening to this song when I opened the thread so yes, I do enjoy it.

 

[Columba]

Everything in history. People, and just all of the things that have like occured.

Well, just the history of one generation.


Anyways, an uber song indeed.

 

[Disney.Ears]

Well, just the history of one generation.


Anyways, an uber song indeed.

Right..but still, history.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I just listened to it.

I like it.
Alot.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I've been listening to Only the Good Die Young most of the day...
And singing it while selling tickets for Our Town.

 

[Columba]

Right..but still, history.

Right..but he/she might have taken "everything in history" as "everything in history". You never know.

 

[TinkerTracy]

I think it's a good song, and it's true.