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lech walesa, hubble space, gulf war
Boris Yeltsin, anita hill, gorbachev resigns
bush and quayle, and clinton and gore
took three hour tour with oj on I5
mlb strike ends, sox wins the series
charles and diana divorce
police beat up rodney king
monica lewinski blows off the president
and heaven's gate collapses
are we still alive?
[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it
nelson mandela, vaclav havel
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, toni morrison
eileen collins, thabo mbeki, hilary clinton
vladimir putin, vicente fox quesada,
vojislav kostunica, and another bush in
everyone needs therapy, cheapest is paper and pen
anthrax scares
reality tv dares
then comes osama bin laden
and no one can forget 9/11
[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it
arafat, north korea withdraws
rumfeld, california gets new "governator"
hussein captured, enron, war with iraqi
al-qaeda, gays finally allowed to marry
still stuck with the bush - more years: four
sandra day o'connor retires,
princess di dies, mother teresa dies
pope john paul II dies,
katrina hits as wind and rain fly
and pluto's a planet no more
[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it
the world's on fire
It's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
guiding light hits fifty
and gets blinded
as the world turns follows
as the fire burns
on and on and on and on....
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Contest Winner
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Author Notes
okay like ya all remember we didn't start the fire by billy joel right? will this contest asked ya to like "continue" with the song for 1990 to present
like here is the original lyrics:
we didn't start the fire
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
CHORUS
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 aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Con, 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, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
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Lebanon, Charlse 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
CHORUS
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
CHORUS
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
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
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