Reviews for We Didn't Start The Fire Lyrics

Ok so I love this song.I learned in my History 2 class and its absolutley amazing.The lyrics are very catchy.Im starting to memorize them.I really love this songs meaning.Billy Joel I give you props.

The first comment here is so ignorant! This song isn't about things that have caused harm, it is about things in history. Joel wrote the song in response to a kid who made a snide comment about there not being enough history in his generation. Get your facts straight before you make an ass of yourself.

I love this song i do but i don't agree with him putting metal and rock n roll in there. Music does not cause any conflict people do. So next time leave the tunes out of it!!!! it would be a much better song!
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Its a GREAT song. theres nothing else to it but the Piano man is a LEGEND. Good stuff mate.

It is definately NOT all about YOUR history. It would be quite self centered to state something like that.
In the end this song is about how things are repeating and evolving, for better or worse. If it would be all about your history, your history would have set the world on fire. And that in return would only be half the truth.

If I were a history teacher, I would definitely teach to this song!! It's all about our history and it's just simply an amazing song by the Piano Man!!

0mg this is 1 of his best songs ever. i love it. very popular especially if u can get to listen to it in ur american history cla$$. lol.

You have got to admit- you have to be insane not to like this song. It has great historical significance behind the catchy tune and lyrics. I am so addicted to this song I memorized all the lyrics (talk about a way to bug your friends)

Rock on Billy!

Tried the link for correcting the lirics but couldn't submit. Corrections of the lyrics :
Not "Bob Dole", Budapest, Alabama...
BUT
"BARDOT", Budapest, Alabama...
For Brigitte Bardot, famous french actress, sex-bomb at her time.

whats up with this Lebanon is the best, Charles de Gaulle, USA,kiss my breast!! that is not right at all try again that is offending to me

nice song... you need to know quite a lot to write it!
i'm glad he included juan peron in it, it shows that argentina is somehow important, or at least it was at that time....
its hard to remember it by hard, though

This song is absolutely fantastic. It's a little known fact, however, that Billy Joel was soley responsible for starting the fire, contrary to the lyrics in this song. He devised a scheme in 1974 to start the fire, and perpetrated said scheme exactly 8 years later. A lyrical attempt has been made by mr. Joel, to pin this atrocious act into global figureheads from the 1980's.

One of the single greatest songs ever written. The random-seeming lyrics offer insight into the issues around the globe at the time, while still managing to fit with the music. And come on, it's just fun to belt out as loud as possible on road trips!

this song has some gret lyrics. most importantly, in my opinion, it details alot of the problems with the world as well as the people and events of the years. i was interested to see that the words little rock' were used. this is of course referring to an incident in Little Rock, arkansas, after the 'end' of desegration in schools in america. the Central High School in Little Rock was regarded at the time as the premier high school in the south. in 1957, in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education verdict that decided that segragation in schools was no longer legal, 75 black children applied to enter the school. 50 were rejected and a further 16 changed their minds when the white community made it very clear that they were hostile to the idea. this left just 9 children. on the 3rd september 1957 a hostle white recist crowd gathered to watch the children attempt to enter the school. the students were unable to enter and the governor of arkansas, orval e. faubus, had no intention of complying with the brown verdict. on the instructions of the governor the Arkansas National guard blocked the way into the school. eventually, president eisenhower intervened and took control of 10,000 of the Arkansas National guard to help the children get into the school. faubus then used his authority as governor to close all the school in little rock until 1959, seriously affecting students education. when it reopened however, both black and white students were allowed to attend.