Fall Out Boy – We Didn’t Start the Fire (Lyric Video)
I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed the world forever. So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years- we felt like a little system update might be fun. Hope you like our take on it…
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LYRICS
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
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 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-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
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Finally, a Fall Out Boy song that mentions Michael Keaton, SpongeBob, Metroid, Kanye West, Captain Planet, Kurt Cobain, Iron Man and Taylor Swift (and so on and so forth). What a crossover.
With Avengers Endgame we thought we had it all, until Fall Out Boy made the biggest crossover ever, hopefully Nintendo doesn’t sue them for mentioning Metroid.
@ErickVideoGameGuyIf Fall Out Boy gets taken down by Nintendo then Fall Out Boy is canon in Smash.
I mean does anyone remember Nintendo Fusion tours?
Is Metroid reference to the game series? Because that’s the first thing I thought of, but felt it would be weird or just my own bias since there were no other game related things mentioned, so just throwing in “Metroid” was surprising 😅
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Hey @ScoutSunset ! Funny seeing my subscribers here hahaha
I love Patrick’s classic soul voice ad-libs kicking in at 2:56! 😍🎤 He needs to do that more often on the studio versions of their songs again. He mostly only does it live these days. It always sounds sooo good and unique mixed with the rock instrumentation. So distinctly Patrick/FOB. Can’t get enough.
Definitely bothers me that this isn’t ordered chronologically, but _”World Trade, second plane – what else do I have to say?”_ is an incredible line to end on.
It’s about the rhymes and making it flow
It isn’t history class, it’s music. Sorry
@Kyle Bogdenlook up the original, it was order by era
@Kyle Bogden Okay, but Billy Joel managed the exact same thing and almost all of it was chronological. It’s possible.
Well are people really trying to hold a light from fall out boy to billy Joel?
好棒🎉
Love it! Only no mention to Harambe?
I like it!! The only thing I can nitpick is that the events are not in order of when they accrued like in the Billy Joel song. This is great!
Yeah, it bothers me.
Did Billy Joel sing them in alphabetical order? I seem to remember the Bridge on the River Kwai being sung after a lot of events contemporary to him. Unless he meant the movie? Even so, I like this cover.
@Sharok GG Chronological order of the events occurring, by decade.
@Matt Brown I wasn’t aware of that. That’s pretty cool! Thanks.
I think that’s because fob have tried to link things to the original song too, like ever given suez being linked with trouble in the suez from the original
Another Banger from fall out boy
Hm Such a beautifull day to listen to fall out boy
I was thinking it was just going to be a brilliant cover, but they went and updated the song too? Fall Out Boy gets me right in the heart every time. I hope I get to see them in concert one day. My life would truly be complete then. 💕
Thank you so much for this modern take that I can see actually relate to 💙💙💙 I love you guys
I’ve always appreciated this song, but with this update I finally feel the hype that previous generations must have felt listening to the original! FANTASTIC cover as always!!
Always thought it would be awesome if someone made a modern version of this song… Glad it was Fall Out Boy!! 💛