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[Kayngi]

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel

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 good-bye!!

We didn't start the fire!
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire!
Well 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,
Tosconini, 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!
Well 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,
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!
Well 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!
Well 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 airlines
Ayatollahs 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 any more!!

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.....

[Tigermark]

I've always loved that song, as I do most of Billy Joel's stuff. I heard on an interview with him that the lyrics here came from a desire to educate folks about history. He said he'd always thought he'd like to be a history teacher if he wasn't in music.

Tigermark (Yep, I remember when this song came out. I was in my middle 20's then.)

[Tygon]

Yes, "We Didn't Start The Fire" is a great song. I know two great parodies but then are both German so it wouldn't make much sense to post them here.

Well, the 80s had many great songs but this is one of my very favorties among them.



St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
John Parr


Growin' up
You don't see the writin' on the wall
Passin' by
Movin' straight ahead you knew it all
But maybe sometime if you feel the pain
You'll find you're all alone
Everything has changed

Play the game
You know you can't quit until it's won
Soldier on
Only you can do what must be done
You know in some way
You're a lot like me
You're just a prisoner
And you're tryin' to break free

I can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's
Flyin' higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

Oooh...

Burnin' up
Don't know just how far that I can go
(Just how far I go)
Soon be home
Only just a few miles down the road
I can make it
I know I can
You broke the boy in me
But you won't break the man

I can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's
Flyin' higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

I can climb the highest mountain
Cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me
Burnin' in me

Just once in his life
A man has his time
And my time is now
And I'm comin' alive

I can hear the music playin'
I can see the banners fly
Feel like you're back again
And hope ridin' high
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

I can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's
Flyin' higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

I can climb the highest mountain
Cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me

Burnin'
Burnin' in me
I can feel it burnin'
Oooh, burnin' inside of me

<Fade>



Interesting notes:
-#1 song for two weeks in 1985
-From the film "St Elmo's Fire" starring Demi Moore,
Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy

[Sharc_Vulpus]

Walk like an Egyptian
The Bangles

All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance, dont you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino.

All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got their money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette.

Foreign types with the hookah pipes say:
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian.

The blonde waitresses take their trays
They spin around and they cross the floor
They've got the moves (oh whey oh)
You drop your drink, then they bring you more.

All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (oh whey oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian.

All the kids in the market place say:
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian.

Slide your feet up the street, bend your back
Shift your arm, then you pull it back
Life is hard, you know (oh whey oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac.

If you want to find all the cops
They're hanging out in the donut shop
They sing and dance (oh whey oh)
Spin the clubs, cruise down the block.

All the Japanese with their yen
The party boys call the Kremlin
And the Chinese know (oh whey oh)
They walk the line like Egyptian.

All the cops in the donut shop say:
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian
Walk like an Egyptian.

[Tommy Fox Stone]

One of my favortie songs from the 80s...
Who wants to live Forever by Queen...

There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away from us

Who wants to live for forever
Who wants to live for forever?

There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live for forever
Who wants to live for forever?

Who wants to live for forever
When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today
Who wants forever any way?