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[–] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written by American musician Billy Joel.

Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!". Joel replied: "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful". The friend replied: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted: "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.[4]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

🎡 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 🎡

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    We did start the fire, about 400k years ago, some Homo created magic; a prodigy, a firestarter.

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