We Didn't Start the Fire: Obama Edition
With non-paying due deference to Billy Joel (whose lyrics are more chronological), a tribute to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama II, who will represent the post-Cold War generation of the 21st-century.
We Didn't Start the Fire
Bill Clinton, Tina Fey, capitalist China, O.J.,
Asia rising, Facebook, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ugg boots, Seinfeld
West Bank, Gaza City, Tupac Amaru Shakur
Mohammed Atta, WMD, Harry Potter, Reality TV
Tom Cruise, American Beauty, MP3, Oprah Winfrey
Schwarzenegger, YouTube, America's got organic food
Armstrong, blogosphere, Monica Lewinsky
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
Vlad Putin, Medvedev, Assad, Posh-and-Becks
The West Wing, Y2K, massacre in Falluja
Britney Spears, Spike Lee, Kurt Cobain, Sarkozy
Mia Hamm, Heath Ledger, Viagra, Napster
Lindsay Lohan, skinny jeans, Boston's got a winning team
Lehman Brothers, AIG, sub-prime, Ponzi scheme
Rwanda, Darfur, Bosnia, and a billion poor,
Tehran, Hezbollah, trouble with the jihadis
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
New Orleans, Bolano, Sarah Palin no-go
Tivo, Hu Jintao, and the vegan-eco crowd
Tony Blair, Paris Hilton, Princess Di, Bin Laden
Pyongyang, the renditions gang, Roger Clemens in a cloud
ACT UP, Infinite Jest, O.J. Part Two, Johnny Depp
iPhones, Federer, Who let the Dogs out?
Halle Berry, cloned Dolly, and another Kennedy
Jon Stewart, American Psycho, Tsunami, Danger Mouse
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
Sedaris, Unabomber, Girls Gone Wild, Nasrallah
Jay-Z, Shanghai, Shock and Awe in Baghdad
Amy Winehouse, Imus, gases of the Greenhouse
Kelly Ripa, Maureen Dowd, Ted Williams gone mad
Outsourcing, Mumbai, so many didn't have to die
David Blaine, human rights, and Napoleon Dynamite
Mandela, Madonna's ex, abstinence, safe sex
Rabin 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
Blackberry, global mall, Hillary Clinton standing tall
Tiger Woods, Barry Bonds, MySpace, The Corrections
Rushdie, Starbucks, Channel Tunnel, Spurlock
American Idol, Black Hawk Down, Miracle on the Hudson
Sopranos, Cougars, Da Vinci Code, life on Mars
Saddam hung, Mugabe, traumatic stress, mission creep
Social networks, match.com, iChat, Amazon,
Terror cells, endless war, 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 tried to fight it
Hawaii, Kenya, Kansas and Jakarta
Harvard, finding God, Social Work, Axelrod
Red State, Blue State, unity can no longer wait,
A time to reap, a time to sow, we will close Guantánamo
Iowa, Yes We Can, McCain was just an also ran
I Have a Dream, Bush Out, a black man in the White House
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. ...