First listen to the original song, by Billy Joel, just so you get into the rhythm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50p-XScreM
Now, my additions for the 2000 - 2015 period:
[2000]
Millenium, Y2K
Uganda Mass graves
Camp David, Fallen grace
Florida Recount
(build-up music)...
Dubya, Powell
Neo-Cons Power
Democrats go down
Tricky Dick is back in town!
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.
[2001 - 2002]
Murder in Congo
Gujarat in shambles
Terror, horror, suicide
Human race's ugly side
Dot-com nose dived
Anthrax or powder white?
Hurt pride, Bush decides
Sweet, crude, oil supplies!
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.
[2003 - 2004]
Rumsfeld, Shock-n-Awe
Rice, smoking gun and all
Wolfowitz, Baghdad bash
Fallujah's backlash
We are in Afghanistan
Party moved to Pakistan.
Mullah Omar, Talibans
Planned to fail?
Or failed to plan?
Missiles, drones
Osama's clones
Even they are never home
War stocks on the rise,
safety bought for genocide!
Hang Saddam, restore pride
And let Osama slide!
In for the kill, Tora-Bora hill,
then we took the blue pill!
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.
[2005-2007]
Palestine, Middle East
Arafat rest in peace
Israel builds a wall
Lebanon war, "hits a wall"
Hezbollah managed to shine
Ehud could only resign
Gaza, Hamas inter-twined,
Netanyahu umpteenth time!
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.
Katrina. Earthquakes
Tsunami, tidal waves
Nature's fury to the fore
Earth shaken to the core
Parents dead, kids survived
Homes destroyed, beaches shined
Global warming on the rise
Truth or convenient lies?
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.
[2008 - 2011]
Wall Street too big to fail
King of Pop disappears
Banks bankrupt, with no trail
Tap the TARP, break out of jail
Arab Spring for all to see
Royal Wedding, selfies
Bin Laden in the sea
Gunned down Gaddafi
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.
Fukushima Daiichi
Steve Jobs rest in peace
Occupy Wall Street
From sea to shiny sea
South, Midwest, Northeast
Nature's fury at its peak
Earthquakes, hurricanes
Here we go again!
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.
[2012]
London Games
Smashing win
Putin in
Jubilee Queen
Twitter tweets
Top the chart
Israel,
Gaza war
Facebook IPO
Obama's second go
Romney's own demise
GOP gives up fight
Iron Lady Goodbye
Nelson dead at ninety-five
Tiny landing on Mars
Giant leap or more wars?
Boston Marathon blast
Whitney Houston, "Where You Are"?
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.
[2013]
Benedict steps down
U.S. Government Shuts down
Russia hit by meteorites
Assad genocide
[2014]
Russian Ruble tumbles
Oil barrel plunges
Ebola outbreak
Landing on the Comet
(build up)
Facebook rises up
WhatsApp Gobbled up
Germans win the World Cup
Plane shot in Europe
Israel, Hamas again
Russians waltz in Ukraine
NATO has growing pains
ISIS is a royal pain
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.
[2015]
Mr. Spock's Voyage Home
Mass shootings close to home
Charlie Hebdo satire
P a r i s on fire
Volkswagon betrayal
El-Chapo out of jail
Turkey downs Russian plane
Netanyahu back again
Cuomo, Dracula
Yogi Berra, Boo ya!
B.B. King, Stabler
San Bernardino fear
Omar Sharif, Abdullah
Fred Thompson, O'Hara
Muslims go
Trump stays
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...
