February 14, 2019

Continuing Where Billy Joel's Song Left Off

I've always liked the non-sequitor nature of the catchy old song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (example: “Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson,…), but alas it ends in the 1980s.

So let's take it through the '90s and beyond, using the last verse as the starting off place:
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning…

Wall falls, blue dress, Y2K, Tyson’s best
O.J., Princess Di, Columbia in the sky
George Bush, Taliban, 9/11, Afghanistan
Donald Rumsfeld known unknowns, diary of Bridget Jones!

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning…

Facebook, Harry Potter, nipplegate, selfie fodder
Netflix, Kardashian, Lady Gaga's instagram
Barack Obama, Tea Party, you can keep your doctor see
gender neutral bathrooms, gay weddings hookah fumes!

Ref: We didn't start the fire
It was always burning…

Hamilton! Amazon, Lock her up, Bernie conned
Hand size, Hillary, server gone, low energy,
Russian probe, deep state, wall no built, Princess Kate,
AOC, Donald Trump, save us Justice Kavanaugh!

Ref: We didn't start the fire
It was always burning…

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