We Didn’t Start the Fire

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We Didn’t Start the Fire by Fall Out Boy

About We Didn’t Start the Fire

Fall Out Boy released an updated version of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” his No. 1 hit single from 1989 that runs down a list of proper nouns ripped from the historic headlines. The band attempts to pick up where Joel left off by referencing moments from 1989 to 2023. Among other events, the new lyrics mention Rodney King, deep fakes, Kim Jong-un, Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Meghan Markle, George Floyd, 9/11, Fyre Festival .

We Didn’t Start the Fire Lyrics

[00:28.39] Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King
[00:31.30] Deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano
[00:34.53] Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon
[00:37.86] Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto, GMOs
[00:42.16]
[00:47.36] Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies
[00:50.59] Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan
[00:53.52] Crimean Peninsula, Cambridge Analytica
[00:56.68] Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man
[00:59.88] We didn't start the fire
[01:02.76] It was always burning since the world's been turning
[01:06.43] We didn't start the fire
[01:09.03] No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it
[01:12.54] More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again
[01:15.77] Obama, Spielberg, explosion, Lebanon
[01:18.75] Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, bombing Boston Marathon
[01:21.99] Balloon Boy, War on Terror, QAnon
[01:25.18] Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice
[01:28.53] Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K
[01:31.66] Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift
[01:34.70] Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez
[01:37.87] We didn't start the fire
[01:40.68] It was always burning since the world's been turning
[01:44.11] We didn't start the fire
[01:46.57] No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it
[01:50.30] Sandy Hook, Columbine, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
[01:53.65] ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away
[01:56.74] Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid
[02:00.05] Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena
[02:05.37] Oh-oh-oh, Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV
[02:09.48] SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught
[02:12.54] Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99
[02:15.67] Keaton, Batman, Bush v. Gore, I can't take it anymore
[02:18.87] We didn't start the fire
[02:21.58] It was always burning since the world's been turning
[02:25.33] We didn't start the fire
[02:27.74] No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it
[02:31.58] Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid
[02:34.56] Jeff Bezos, climate change, white rhino goes extinct
[02:37.63] Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens
[02:41.07] Mars rover, Avatar, self-driving electric cars
[02:44.22] SSRI's, Prince and The Queen die
[02:47.46] World trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?
[02:50.40] We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)
[02:53.37] It was always burning since the world's been turning (oh)
[02:56.83] We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)
[02:59.56] But when we are gone, it will still go on (oh-yeah)
[03:02.86] And on, and on, and on, and on
[03:05.71] And on, and on, and on
[03:09.29] We didn't start the fire (fire)
[03:12.13] It was always burning since the world's been turning
[03:14.62]

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