"We Didn't Start The Fire" Done To GOP Scandals.
A few months before the 2008 election I was listening to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire". I always dug the song, it was so catchy. But when I sat down to read the lyrics I thought it was well, shitty. Not that it's really Billy Joel's fault, writing lyrics in that way is really freaking hard.
But suddenly an idea came to me...I'd bet you could rewrite the lyrics to this song, and have them refer to some of the many scandals from the Bush administration. After laboring for several days, this is the result. For kicks, try singing along with the song to these new lyrics.
Scooter Libby, Neal Horsley, Tom DeLay, KKK
Shell, BP, and Amoco, Halliburton
Judith Miller, New York Times, Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm
Ken Lay, Kissinger, and Berlusconi
George Bush, Pretzels, wiretap, Abramoff
Billo, Geraldo, torture in Guantánamo
Reaganomics, privatize, global heating suicide
PNAC, Trent Lott, Cialis on my TV set
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Wal-Mart, AIPAC, The IMF, World Bank
Negroponte, death squads, occupation
9/11, bomb blasts, tax cuts, getting rich
Anthrax, Saddam, and free speech zones
Al Qaeda, My Pet Goat, SAVAK, “Stay the course.”
Fallujah, Lebanon, Mussolini’s here again
New Orleans photo-ops, TSA sippy cups,
Gonzo, Karl Rove, blacks kicked off the voting rolls
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Yellowcake, Tim McVeigh, Downing Street, CIA
Diebold, black box, Honey bees are dying off
Columbine, Virginia Tech, the SOA, the deficit
Terri Schiavo, Bill Frist, health care is getting sick
Fox News, culture war, Faith based, Goss’ whores
Lieberman, Safavian, Falwell kicks the can
Free trade, Katrina, FEMA, treason
Russert, Tobias, Cheney shot someone in the face
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Downing Street, Hardball, Osama, Panama
Rumsfeld, Enron, Rush Limbaugh’s on heroin
Robertson’s diamond mines, It’s Giuliani time
Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Condi’s buying shoes again
Stem cells, landmines, Bolton’s at the UN,
Mumia’s locked 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
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Consolidation media, Bechtel’s in Bolivia
Darfur, Dubai, Walter Reed, Swift Boat
Foley and Gannon, Claude Allen’s stealing
Clear Skies, doughnut holes, Tillman killed in Afghanistan
Shia-Sunni genocide, vets committing suicide
Chalabi taking Iranian bets, color-coded homeland threats
China exporting everything, Arms race is back again
Never ending terror wars, 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
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, 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
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
But suddenly an idea came to me...I'd bet you could rewrite the lyrics to this song, and have them refer to some of the many scandals from the Bush administration. After laboring for several days, this is the result. For kicks, try singing along with the song to these new lyrics.
Scooter Libby, Neal Horsley, Tom DeLay, KKK
Shell, BP, and Amoco, Halliburton
Judith Miller, New York Times, Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm
Ken Lay, Kissinger, and Berlusconi
George Bush, Pretzels, wiretap, Abramoff
Billo, Geraldo, torture in Guantánamo
Reaganomics, privatize, global heating suicide
PNAC, Trent Lott, Cialis on my TV set
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Wal-Mart, AIPAC, The IMF, World Bank
Negroponte, death squads, occupation
9/11, bomb blasts, tax cuts, getting rich
Anthrax, Saddam, and free speech zones
Al Qaeda, My Pet Goat, SAVAK, “Stay the course.”
Fallujah, Lebanon, Mussolini’s here again
New Orleans photo-ops, TSA sippy cups,
Gonzo, Karl Rove, blacks kicked off the voting rolls
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Yellowcake, Tim McVeigh, Downing Street, CIA
Diebold, black box, Honey bees are dying off
Columbine, Virginia Tech, the SOA, the deficit
Terri Schiavo, Bill Frist, health care is getting sick
Fox News, culture war, Faith based, Goss’ whores
Lieberman, Safavian, Falwell kicks the can
Free trade, Katrina, FEMA, treason
Russert, Tobias, Cheney shot someone in the face
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Downing Street, Hardball, Osama, Panama
Rumsfeld, Enron, Rush Limbaugh’s on heroin
Robertson’s diamond mines, It’s Giuliani time
Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Condi’s buying shoes again
Stem cells, landmines, Bolton’s at the UN,
Mumia’s locked 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
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Consolidation media, Bechtel’s in Bolivia
Darfur, Dubai, Walter Reed, Swift Boat
Foley and Gannon, Claude Allen’s stealing
Clear Skies, doughnut holes, Tillman killed in Afghanistan
Shia-Sunni genocide, vets committing suicide
Chalabi taking Iranian bets, color-coded homeland threats
China exporting everything, Arms race is back again
Never ending terror wars, 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
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Well, 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
Well, we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
posted by Alva Goldbook at 8:22 PM
6 Comments:
Sorry - Billy Joel's lyrics are waaay better than that.
Yours are just.. well...shitty.
Amazing that you can use piss for fire starter.
This is a great anthem to everything that's wrong about the right, and why the neocons should never be allowed in power again! People should memorize it and it should be played every day, so they never forget the evil.
Is there anyway I can get a recording of this and download it to my iPod?
What a wonderful song! So clever and ingenious. It sends a powerful message about the evils of the republicans. Even though we have the noble and correct thinking democrats in office now, we CAN NEVER EVER EVER EVER FORGET THE HARM THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE TO THIS ONCE GREAT NATION! THANK YOU FOR YOUR BRILLIANCE
Who's Savak?
Isn't that the Vulcan chick in one of those Star Trek movies?
I think Kirstie Alley played the part. Am I missing something?
Great lyrics though!
Bush sucks! Keep Rockin' Dude!
Progpole, SAVAK is the CIA trained secret police/death squad that the Shah used to kill off all political opposition in Iran from 1953 to 1979. It is why there are so many young people in Iran. The majority of the middle aged population was killed.
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