Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Lyric Video)
Video Overview & Insights
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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We Didn’t Start The Fire is out everywhere now: https://FallOutBoy.lnk.to/wedidntstartthefire
So Much (For) Stardust - out now on Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 https://FallOutBoy.lnk.to/somuchforstardust
... and this doesn't even cover the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately. But it does cover a lot more than a history teacher would probably advise covering in under 4 mins...
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I'm surprised there's no mention of the recent pandemic
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You left me hanging this is so incomplete I think you may have to go back and do this again....😞 I would say go do this one more time
LYRICS
Captain Planet
Who gives a flying fuck if it was in chronological order?! If you've lived through all of these things and didn't get goosebumps, I feel sorry for your non feeling ass
Arab Spring
LA Riots Rodney King
This should become a a tradition.
Every several years, a band / artist makes a remake of the OG Billy Joel song, but with modern events, as well as their own style.
Deep fakes
Earthquakes
Taylor Swift and Megan Markle but No Princess Diana??? WTF!!!
Iceland volcano
Oklahoma City bomb
Stranger things
Kurt Cobain
Pokémon
It’s a bit it’s not chronological. And also he missed a decade
Tiger Woods
MySpace
Something’s gotta fuckin’ change, man…
Monsanto GMOs
Harry Potter
This song needs to be redone again 😢
Twilight
Michael Jackson dies
Yep all happened man
Nuclear accident Fukushima Japan
Crimean peninsula
Found out this exists from Demi’s version from dropouts
Cambridge analytica
Kim Jong Un
I'm a 14 year old I just can stop vibing to these songs
Robert Downey Jr Iron Man
We didn’t start the fire
The world will keep right on spinning and right on burning and we will keep right on fighting the fire because that's all we can do we didn't start it but we can sure as hell fight it.
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Fall Out Boy es increíble, 🤌🏻✨✨ siempre hacen un cover mejor que la original.
No we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it
More war in Afghanistan
I forgot about half these things. But at least half of them are worth forgetting.
Cubs go all the way again
Obama
Lmao I was involved in some of this shit
Spielberg
Explosion Lebanon
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Unabomber
Bobbit, John
DJT is reversing it. 💪🇺🇸
Bombing Boston marathon
Balloon Boy
Why are people depressed 😭😭😭
War on terror
Qanon
You mean ‘Fent Floyde’ 😂
Trump gets impeached twice
Polar bears got no ice
Fyre fest
Black Parade
We gonna need a update in two years from now its june 14th 2026
Michael Phelps
Y2K
I wish that they included themselves into this.
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Every 20 years we need to make this song again.
Kanye West
Taylor Swift
❤
Stranger Things
Tiger King
I wish we could say "Jays go all the way again". SO close yet so far!
Ever given suez
We didn’t start the fire
Why on earth is George Floyd talked about far more than any other Black murder-by-cop, especially since there was another one around the same time?
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
This song is shit
No we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it
Sandy Hook
This is great, but wish it were in order like the original.
Columbine
Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
And to think that the fire will most likely continue burning for an eternity.
ISIS
Lebron James
Then Dukes them Dukes
Shinzo Abe blown away
Meghan Markle
135/46 it is for that turtle double 💉💉
It's best to wait for Steve and me to get things going again we have many sinners to go through and not the normal sin we are talking about
George Floyd
Burj Khalifa
Of course I wrote this song on Brent smiths and myers page this was for the president of China to remember everything that Ive been saying for the last few years. CHINA?
Metroid
Fermi paradox
See you all in 30 years
Venus and Serena
Michael Jordan 23
It's because "OJ Simpson" is incredibly hard to rhyme
YouTube killed MTV
Spongebob
2026
Golden State Killer caught
Michael Jordan 45
No mention of the Gulf War, the collapse of the USSR, the Rwandan Genocide, breakup of Yugoslavia, the 2008 Finical Crisis or Covid.
But we get such thoughtful lyrics like “Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid
Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena
Woodstock ‘99
Keaton Batman
Bush v Gore
I can’t take it anymore
I really don't enjoy the chorus, sounds oddly lower in key. Also, should have just had the words The Simpsons Is Still On, over and over and over again.
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
awful
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it
Never forget your history kids.
Elon Musk
Kaepernick
Balloon boy what
Texas failed electric grid
Jeff Bezos
LOVE THE SONG, BUT NOT WHATS GOING ON! 💜🌎🔥
Climate change
White rhino goes extinct
The "no we didn't light but we're trying to fight it" I think shows war
Great pacific garbage patch
Tom DeLonge and aliens
The least Fall Out Boy could've done to properly honour Billy Joel's song is list the events in chronological order like Billy did. Great tune otherwise
Mars rover
Avatar
This version blew me away
Self-driving electric cars
S-S-S-R-Is
Wild how this and the original song are like recaps of some of the world's most historic events and names.
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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