We Didn't Start the Fire (1990-2019)

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

So, yesterday I finished my update to the classic Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start the Fire". It picks up where the original left off with the year 1990 and covers every following year up to 2019. I should note that obviously 40 years haven't passed since the song was released, however, 30 years was plenty to work with and allows 2020 and 2021 to start the next version when enough time has passed to write one.

Here's the lyrics:

We Didn't Start the Fire (Part II)

US invades Panama, Internet, MLK Day Crash, Apartheid, Mandela, Nickelodeon, Berlin Wall, Clean Air, Rodney King, Jeffery Dahmer, Belle and Beast, Freddie's gone, The Cold War's over US invades Panama, Internet, MLK Day Crash, Apartheid, Mandela, Nickelodeon, Berlin Wall, Clean Air, Rodney King, Jeffery Dahmer, Belle and Beast, Freddie's gone, The Cold War's over

LA Riots, CWC, Great Flood of '93, Tuberculosis, MJ Scandal, NAFTA, Kurt Cobain, Death to Gacy, O.J., Amazon, Goodbye Bob Ross, Eazy E, and Selena

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

Pocahontas, Playstation, Toy Story big hit, Fusing lead and zinc makes Copernicium, Sheep clone, Desert Strike, Tupac, Taliban, Biggie Smalls, Buffy Summers, Tyson bites an ear

Cunanan and Versace, Princess Di, Yousef, Titanic, Lewinsky, Viagra, Google, Columbine, Wakefield, iTunes, Dale Earnhardt, 9/11, Anthrax, War on Terror begins

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

Daniel Pearl, HS Act, Treasure Planet, Smallpox vax, Sky marshals, Anti-war, Mr. Rogers, Iraq, Human genes, Tesla Inc, Facebook, Last ep of Friends, Indian Ocean, Eris, YouTube launches

Katrina, Twitter, Pluto, The WB, Pelosi, iPhone, Virgina Tech attack, Proton beam, Barack Obama, MJ RIP, Haiti, Oil Spill, Walking Dead, Bin Laden

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

Occupy, Steve Jobs, Whitney we'll always love you, Putin, Solar storm, Hurricane Sandy, Sandy Hook, 3D printing, Kim Jong-Un, Boston bombing, New Orleans, Ebola, Wage increase, Malaysian Flight 17, Bruno Mars, Hunger Games, Dick Clark, Etta James, Y12K is the end, we can't take 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 tried to fight it

ISIS, Ferguson, Same Sex Marriages, Mars has water, Paris, Trump vs. Hillary, David Bowie, Chyna, Prince and Ali, Carrie Fisher, Debbie, Trumps beats Hillary

Russia's Meddling, Sports kneeling, #MeToo, Climate Change, Trump's out, Aretha, College cheating, Notre Dame, Harry and Meghan's baby, User Privacy, Luke Perry passed 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
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
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

[Tim]

Pretty good, Matt.

And thanks for not mentioning COVID.  We've all had enough of that.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Thanks, it actually wasn't that difficult to do and it was really fun to write.

Funny you should mention Covid...that's the very first event of Part 3.

[Tim]

Oh.

I've seen YouTube videos that have done this, update the song past  1989.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Yeah I have too, that's why I decided to throw my hat into the ring. It's the first song I've ever managed to write.