Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Lyric Video)

 

 

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I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed the world forever. So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years- we felt like a little system update might be fun. Hope you like our take on it… We Didn’t Start The Fire is out everywhere now: https://FallOutBoy.lnk.to/wedidntstar... So Much (For) Stardust - out now on Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 https://FallOutBoy.lnk.to/somuchforst... So Much For (Tour) Dust coming to a city near you this summer (North America) and fall (UK/EU)! Tickets are on sale now http://falloutboy.com/tour FOLLOW FALL OUT BOY https://falloutboy.com/ https://instagram.com/falloutboy https://www.tiktok.com/@falloutboy https://twitter.com/falloutboy https://facebook.com/falloutboy LYRICS Captain Planet Arab Spring LA Riots Rodney King Deep fakes Earthquakes Iceland volcano Oklahoma City bomb Kurt Cobain Pokémon Tiger Woods MySpace Monsanto GMOs Harry Potter Twilight Michael Jackson dies Nuclear accident Fukushima Japan Crimean peninsula Cambridge analytica Kim Jong Un Robert Downey Jr Iron Man 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’re trying to fight it More war in Afghanistan Cubs go all the way again Obama Spielberg Explosion Lebanon Unabomber Bobbit, John Bombing Boston marathon Balloon Boy War on terror Qanon Trump gets impeached twice Polar bears got no ice Fyre fest Black Parade Michael Phelps Y2K Boris Johnson Brexit Kanye West Taylor Swift Stranger Things Tiger King Ever given 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’re trying to fight it Sandy Hook Columbine Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice ISIS Lebron James Shinzo Abe blown away Meghan Markle George Floyd Burj Khalifa Metroid Fermi paradox Venus and Serena Michael Jordan 23 YouTube killed MTV Spongebob Golden State Killer caught Michael Jordan 45 Woodstock ‘99 Keaton Batman Bush v Gore 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 No we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it Elon Musk Kaepernick Texas failed electric grid Jeff Bezos Climate change White rhino goes extinct Great pacific garbage patch Tom DeLonge and aliens Mars rover Avatar Self-driving electric cars S-S-S-R-Is Prince and the Queen die World Trade Second plane 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 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

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Billy Joel Responds to Fall Out Boy’s Updated Cover of His Hit ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’

"Go ahead... take it away!"

JULY 13, 2023

Billy Joel JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES

BILLY JOEL HAS apparently been waiting for someone to come along and update his 1989 single “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” In an interview with BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball following his headlining performance in Hyde Park last weekend, Joel praised Fall Out Boy for their recent take on the song.

“Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40-year span,” Joel told Ball. “Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Out Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away!”

Unlike the Billy Joel original, Fall Out Boy don’t run through the events in chronological order. It begins with the Captain Planet cartoon series in 1990, jumps to the Arab Spring in 2010, the L.A. Riots in 1992, and the police assault on Rodney King in 1991. As the song continues, it touches on seismic global events (Brexit, the death of Queen Elizabeth, the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan), pop culture artifacts (Michael Keaton’s Batman, Twilight, Iron Man, SpongeBob Square Pants), and music moments (My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade, Woodstock 99).

Fall Out Boy is currently on the road in support of their new LP, So Much (for) Stardust. Joel recently announced he will play the final show of his Madison Square Garden residency in July 2024, over a decade after he kicked off the historic monthly concert series. The final gig will also mark his 150th career show at the New York City arena. He has brought numerous surprise guests onstage throughout the residency, although Fall Out Boy has yet to join him.