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Billy Joel – We Didn't Start The Fire 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

Rosenberg, 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

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 Prokofiov,
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist
Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron,
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, Zhou Enlai, 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

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, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician s**,
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
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

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

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

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
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    "it was always burning since the worlds been turning". Joel means that throughout time, there have always been problems in the world. Ever since the beginning of time. "no, we didn't light it but we tried to fight it" joel means that even though the fire's always been there, we have been making it worse. We've been trying to fight it though. And right our wrongs. And joel is listing the events in his lifetime that were good and bad that somehow effected the fire in the world.
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