Billy Joel

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire songtekst

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Het idee voor dit nummer ontstond toen Billy Joel net 40 jaar was geworden, en een 21-jarige vriend de opmerking maakte dat hij geluk had in de jaren vijftig geboren te zijn. Volgens hem was het een vreedzame periode waarin niets opmerkelijks gebeurde. Waarop Billy Joel verbaasd antwoordde of hij nog niet gehoord had over de Koreaanse oorlog en de Suezcrisis. Hieruit is later het nummer ontstaan, waarin de zanger alle politieke, culturele, sociale, wetenschappelijke en sportieve hoogtepunten opsomt vanaf zijn geboortejaar 1949 tot 1989.

'49 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio

'50 Joe Mccarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

'51 Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye

'52 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

'53 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

'54 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

'55 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

'56 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
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

'57 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

'58 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

'59 Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

'60 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

'61 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay Of Pigs Invasion

'62 Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston Beats Patterson

'63 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

'64 - '89 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 burnin',
Since the world's been turnin'
We didn't start the fire,
But when we are gone
Will it 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
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
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Auteur: Billy Joel

Componist: Billy Joel

Publisher: Sony BMG Music Entertainment

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Uitgegeven in: 2011

Taal: Engels

Komt voor op: Welcome To The Show (1990) , Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel (2004) , The Essential Billy Joel 3.0 (2008) , Live at Yankee Stadium (2022) , 50 Years of the Piano Man (2022)

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