Fall Out Boy – We Didn’t Start the Fire

Performed by
Fall Out Boy
Release Year
2023

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Fall Out Boy – We Didn’t Start the Fire
Key: G Major BPM: ♩ = 152 Time: 4/4
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 Captain Planet, Arab Spring, LA Riots Rodney King, deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano
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 Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs

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 Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies, nuclear accident Fukushima Japan
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 Crimean peninsula, Cambridge analytica, Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr Iron Man

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 We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
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 We didn’t start the fire, no we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

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 More war in Afghanistan, cubs go all the way again, Obama, Spielberg, explosion Lebanon
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 Unabomber, Bobbit, John, Bombing Boston marathon, Balloon Boy, war on terror, Qanon

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 Trump gets impeached twice, polar bears got no ice
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 Fyre fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K
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 Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Stranger Things, Tiger King, ever given suez

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 We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
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 We didn’t start the fire, no we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

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 Sandy Hook, Columbine, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice, ISIS, Lebron James, Shinzo Abe blown away
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 Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid, Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena

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 Michael Jordan 23, YouTube killed MTV, Spongebob, Golden State Killer caught
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 Michael Jordan 45, Woodstock ’99, Keaton Batman, Bush v Gore, I can’t take it anymore

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 We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
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 We didn’t start the fire, no we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

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 Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid
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 Jeff Bezos, climate change, white rhino goes extinct
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 Great pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens
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 Mars rover, Avatar, Self-driving electric cars
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 S-S-S-R-Is, Prince and the Queen die, World Trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?

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 We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
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 We didn’t start the fire, but when we are gone, it will still burn on
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And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
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 We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning

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