[Verse 1]

Captain Planet, Arab Spring

L.A. riots, Rodney King

Deepfakes, 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

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

More war in Afghanistan

Cubs go all the way again

Obama, Spielberg

Explosion, Lebanon

Unabomber, Bobbitt, 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 and Taylor Swift

Stranger Things, Tiger King

Ever Given, Suez

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

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 got caught

Michael Jordan, 45

Woodstock '99

Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore

I can't take it anymore

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 4]

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

SSRIs

Prince and The Queen die

World Trade, second plane

What else do I have to say?

[Chorus]

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 go 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