Lyrics and translation Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire

We Didn't Start the Fire

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

On n'a pas allumé le feu

Harry Truman, Doris Day, la Chine rouge, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, la télévision
Corée du Nord, Corée du Sud, Marilyn Monroe

Les Rosenberg, la bombe H, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "Le Roi et moi", et "L'Attrape-cœurs"
Eisenhower, le vaccin, l'Angleterre a une nouvelle reine
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, adieu

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser et Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, le bloc communiste
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, le Dacron

Diên Biên Phu tombe, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn a une équipe gagnante
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, l'Alabama, Khrouchtchev
Grace Kelly, Peyton Place, des problèmes dans le canal de Suez

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Spoutnik, Chou En-laï, "Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï"
Le Liban, Charles de Gaulle, le baseball californien
Le meurtre de Starkweather, les enfants de la thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, le singe de l'espace, la mafia
Les hula hoops, Castro, l'Edsel est un échec
U2, Syngman Rhee, le scandale de la payola et Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psychose, les Belges au Congo

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Étranger dans un pays étrange"
Dylan, Berlin, l'invasion de la Baie des Cochons
"Lawrence d'Arabie", la Beatlemania britannique
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston bat Patterson
Le pape Paul, Malcolm X, un scandale sexuel politique en Angleterre
JFK – assassiné, que puis-je dire de plus ?

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

La pilule contraceptive, Hô Chi Minh, Richard Nixon de retour
L'alunissage, Woodstock, le Watergate, le punk rock
Begin, Reagan, la Palestine, la terreur des compagnies aériennes
L'ayatollah en Iran, les Russes en Afghanistan

"La Roue de la Fortune", Sally Ride, le suicide heavy metal
Dettes extérieures, anciens combattants sans-abri, sida, crack, Bernie Goetz
Seringues sur le rivage, la Chine sous loi martiale
Rock and roll, guerres du cola, j'en peux plus

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Mais quand on sera partis
Il brûlera encore, encore et encore, et encore, et encore, et encore, et encore

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre

On n'a pas allumé le feu
Il brûlait déjà, depuis que le monde tourne
On n'a pas allumé le feu
Non, on ne l'a pas allumé, mais on a essayé de l'éteindre