Fire Song 2023

This song was released a year ago (June 2023), but it still makes me smile every time it comes on the radio (or playlist).

NOTE:  The original (1989) was one of my favorite Billy Joel songs during high school...... and remains one of my favorite Billy Joel songs 35 years later.

We Didn't Start the Fire

Fallout Boy

Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. 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, Bobbitt, 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 and 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

Oh-oh-oh, Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV

SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got 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

SSRI's, Prince and The Queen die

World trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)

It was always burning since the world's been turning (oh)

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it)

But when we are gone, it will still go on (oh-yeah)

And on, and on, and on, and on

And on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire (fire)

It was always burning since the world's been turning

Favorite thing I'm glad they included?  IRON MAN (my favorite super-"hero")

And Y2K also.  What a mess of anxiety and nervous apprehension that one was!!

Grace & Peace & Love to you all -

Matt