Billy Joel We Didn't Start the Fire |
| Song Information | |
| Song Artist(s): | Billy Joel |
| Song Title: | We Didn't Start the Fire |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Album Information | |
| Album: | Power Trakks 091 |
| Track: | 6 |
| Track Classification | |
| Genre: | Rock 1980s |
| MusicBrainz Genre: | Rock |
| Audio |
| 20 sec. sample |
| Lyrics | |
| Original Source: | LyricWiki |
| Harry Truman, Doris Day Red China, Johnnie 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 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 Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Perón 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, Chou 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 U-2, 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 Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X British politician sex JFK 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 shore 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, and 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 No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it | |
| Track Information | |
| Published Time: | 4:48 |
| Measured Time: | 4:50 |
| Traktor Peak dB: | 0.251 |
| Traktor Perceived dB: | 4.039 |
| Mix Information | |
| Mixmeister BPM: | 144.8 |
| Traktor BPM: | 72.4 (100.0%) |
| Mixmeister Key: | D m |
| External Cross-Referencing | |
| MusicBrainz PUID: | c6577132-0cd7-d718-f360-6a6d5ecb5fbd |
| MusicBrainz MusicDNS | |
| Song Artist: | Billy Joel |
| Song Title: | We Didn't Start the Fire |
| First Release Year: | 1989 |
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