We Didn’t Start the Fire

We Didn’t Start the Fire (1978–2025 Version)

(Verse 1)

Camp David Accords, Jonestown tragedy,
Disco fever, Star Wars, VCRs we see.
Iran hostage crisis, Thatcher takes the lead,
Sony Walkman, punk rock, MTV’s the need.


Reagan’s in the White House, AIDS begins to spread,
Challenger explodes, tears for the dead.
Berlin Wall is falling, Tiananmen Square,
Internet’s born, grunge in the air.


(Chorus)

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.


(Verse 2)

Gulf War flares, Nirvana’s loud and raw,
Clinton’s sax, Y2K, dot-coms we saw.
9/11 shakes us, towers crumble down,
War in Afghanistan, freedom’s battleground.


iPod’s in your pocket, Facebook’s on the rise,
Hurricane Katrina, truth behind the lies.
Obama makes history, markets crash and burn,
Arab Spring, Occupy, the world begins to turn.


(Chorus)

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.


(Verse 3)

Smartphones rule the planet, Twitter’s trending fast,
Climate strikes, Brexit fights, the future meets the past.
COVID locks the world down, masks and Zoom we know,
Black Lives Matter marches, justice starts to grow.


Crypto booms and busts, AI’s on the scene,
TikTok dances, streaming wars, life’s a touchscreen dream.
Ukraine’s under fire, tensions in the East,
SpaceX rockets soaring, stars within our reach.


(Chorus)

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.


(Bridge)

Metaverse is calling, deepfakes blur the truth,
Elon’s on the X app, memes ignite the youth.
Inflation’s biting hard, wildfires rage and roar,
Quantum leaps, gene edits, what’s the future store?


(Chorus)

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...


(Outro)

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.