We Need to Start Again Lyrics

Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire Meaning

Song Released: 1989



Nosotros Didn't Outset the Fire Lyrics

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Ruby Cathay, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Northward Korea, South korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Flop, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England'due south got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

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Nosotros didn't kickoff the fire
It was always burning
Since the world'south been turning
Nosotros didn't start the burn down
No we didn't low-cal information technology
But we tried to fight information technology

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Effectually the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn'due south got a winning team
Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, "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 become

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Stubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

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 sexual activity
JFK diddled away, what else do I have to say!

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah'southward in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune" , Emerge Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's nether martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore!

CHORUS

We didn't start the burn
But when we are gone
Will it notwithstanding burn on, and on, and on, and on...

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    Feb sixth 2012 study

    The whole song is substantially an analysis of the events that happened between 1949 to 1989. The chorus discusses the fact that nada we've done in recent years is directly responsible for the problems in the world ("Nosotros didn't start the fire"). The issues stem from events in the past ("It's e'er burning since the world's been turning"). The side by side lines of the chorus hash out the fact that each generation attempts to fix the issues of the final ("Nosotros didn't low-cal information technology, but we tried to fight it"). And the last line refers to the idea that nothing we do, in an attempt to to set up the world's problems, is actually going to have whatever long term furnishings ("But when nosotros are gone, will it still burn on")

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    Feb seventh 2014 report

    Everyone interprets it differently, as you tin can see on this page. To me he is alluding to the fact that evil has always existed. That as a gild we effort to discourage it, however evil only exist and It can't be abolished. He uses events and experiences from his own life to illustrate the evil nature of the world.

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    Apr 10th 2012 report

    I think that this song is most how the people earlier Billy Joel's fourth dimension started something and Billy's generation tried to fix it.Likewise it could also mean people places, or things that happened during war.

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    Jul 27th 2021 written report

    To sum upwards all the comments made, all the wars and problems are acquired past the leaders of countries that endeavor to be a autonomous Republic (the W) vs the dictator - communist ruling party (the East).
    Their actions have fallen on the younger generations to attempt to set up. However it does not work because people and governments do not learn from by mistakes. Therefore, the FIRE never ever goes out and only gets worst.

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    Mar 1st 2021 report

    Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
    Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
    Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Evelyn

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    May 16th 2020 report

    it is a nice vocal to hear at present again and acquire more near it, since i heard of it when attending college and learning english, and watching it on mtv. its great, thank you potsy, yong zh CHINA

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    November 14th 2019 report

    The singer Billy Joel is taking the roll of a CNN news reporter thats roofing in detail the different years in order 1949 1955 and 1969 in news summary anchor person who might been payed by a place like CNN

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    May 1st 2018 study

    This song is all the events that took place between when baton joel was born and when he released this song.

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    Jan 1st 2018 written report

    Just call up if there was an update on this song from 89 till 2018. Smh

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    Oct quaternary 2017 written report

    The song is about people, places and things that have came virtually in different years.
    The proper name of the song is basically a statement made saying that they did not start the fire. It basically raises the question then of who did by relating the names only and then you lot can practice your history to find out. The Fire beingness what was accomplished by the persons, places or things he speaks of. This is ane of his all-time songs in my volume that really no 1 knows the respond to except Mr. Billy himself.

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    Jun 10th 2017 report

    I call back "we didn't start the fire" relates to the arson attack on the bundestag before ww2. One, the culprit remains a mystery and two, widely regarded as the event which Hitler exploited to gain more and more back up to eventually become elected.

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    Apr 30th 2017 written report

    It'southward about our history and special events that has happened in the past l years.

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    Aug 1st 2016 report

    A great song by Billy Joel and off grade ''we didn't start the burn down''. Naturally, that was GOD who started it all, since the world began. And as well we didn't starting time the human being fabricated fires that defenseless up to our generation to inflame the chaos theory even more. This all started a long time ago. Who by the three percent of the tiptop aristocracy power rulers e'er loved and still loves to ''play with burn down'' that have berned many of us and certainly we've been inhaling their smoke left behind for one thousand's of years throughout history that always started fires and loved to inflame some of us to become illuminated chosen ones. In order to influence and entertaine for controlling the rest of the majority to get confused by their given fame of ''fire power'' that is still being fought with a lot of Holy H2o Righteousness in the present time,

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    Jan 2nd 2015 study

    I'm simply gonna become into the chorus:

    We didn't start the evolution of humanity which is destroying the earth (like a fire), it has been going on since life was here,
    we are trying to save the world.

    That might suck, only yea, that's what I recall.

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    Dec 17th 2011 report

    Each verse is almost something that afflicted the world in a good or bad fashion and no matter how hard you endeavour, you can't cease things from happening.

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    Oct 6th 2011 report

    we have made a lot of problems and we need to fix them merely we are non sure how and now we take all this crap to deal with...

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyhow

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    May 24th 2011 report

    i believe that the fire is a symbol for all the problems our world has seen, and all the people and events listed are things that take happened throughout Baton Joel'due south life. The chorus, i feel is a comfort blanket after listening to a 30 2d rant on all the bad things, it is telling usa that we will try our best to end the burn or problems but it volition never cease and that is not ane generations fault it is what causes the world to go circular.

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    May 6th 2011 study

    i heard it was about all the events that happened during Billy Joel'south lifetime. I also heard that information technology was nigh of the events that werent in Americas control ( that 2d part i but heard and so right this if im wrong)

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