Billy Joel x Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start The Fire (1949 - 2023)

We now have it. Part 2 to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire has been released by Fall Out Boy; so here’s the ultimate grouping of both songs.

I don’t own any rights to each song.

[starrnoble]

I gotchu, lyrics for both:

Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

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

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the 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 tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "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-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

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

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 sex
JFK – blown 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
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, 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
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

Fallout boy

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 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

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
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

[BuckBlaziken]

It should be industry standard to continue this song every 30-40 years

[TBONE_]

Most of us will be alive between 2024 and 2059, _but when we are gone, it will still go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on..._

[turnipcrazy]

I like the part two added to the song, but jeez I forgot just how many terrible events happened in my lifetime so far. I forgot that the marathon bomber happened when I was younger. Jeez

[honey--girl-miss--muffin]

billy joel: and it will go on and on and on
fall out boy: indeed it will...

[Krabchronicles]

Billy Joel: England's got a new Queen

Fallout boy: Prince and the Queen die

[silentskyrim]

It would be upsetting to me if this doesn’t become a tradition every twenty-ish years

[ladylightning]

Yo if someone covers this in 2049 it will be a time capsule of 100 years of history

[vivithegoblindruid]

In 40 years if we're still here someone gonna make yet another version to add to this and I can't wait to hear it

[TheRealWhism]

It blends together so well it sounds like one song

[NoelNoirChan]

I swear I didn't know about Fall Out Boy's "We didn't start the fire" until 2 minutes ago, and I love it so much. Thank you for this mashup

[markalexander]

I just wish the FoB version was chronological

[alexanderjohnson]

This went from a few minute song to a descriptor of the last century

[jokelethkurueisner]

Like a boss fight against a living encyclopedia

Phase 1 (Billy Joel): Fight is steadily paced with a pattern
Phase 2 (Fall Out Boy): Faster pace and attacks are all over the place

[BamBam_HeAt]

The transition from the original to the cover is spectacular and the switch from the blend in the transition from the masters being analog to digital recording is seamless. Amazing job!

[Nicksolo]

Listening to both versions not only in order of release, but also in chronological order is very awesome.

I was actually hoping to find a video exactly like this.

1949-2023, 74 years of events covered in just 7:10 by 2 bands (1 being Billy Joel & his band, the other being Fallout Boy), 1 covering 1949-1989 & the other covering 1989-2023.

[TheVadior]

I feel like someone needs to make 2 more. One from 1900 to 1929 and another from 1929 to 1949.

[anonymousobserver]

each year that passes It looks like the fire might consume us before we make another one of these

[moosejavian]

Perfect .I hoped someone would combine the 2 versions.. Thank you from the old boomer

[mikewhite]

i sat here thinking it would be so cool if some one put them together so i type it in and bang nice job