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We Didn’t Start the Fire

by Billy Joel

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We Didn’t Start the Fire Technique

Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.

Music

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is not a complex song. There is a standard four-chord progression repeated in all the verses. The chorus provides the closest thing to a melodic hook, but even this...

Speaker

There’s not a great deal of mystery as to the speaker in this song. It’s Billy Joel. The song begins with events of 1949, the year he was born, and it ends with events of 1989, the year he turn...