October 25, 2006

• Ever since it came out, I have always been a really big fan of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” In fact, its always been my favorite Billy Joel song, although “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” is a good song too (wink wink!). In fact, I love “We Didn’t Start The Fire” so much, my lame ass even tried to write a version of my own about my friends and I a couple of years ago. My plan was to write it and read it the last year that we were all going to go camping together, but I couldn’t finish it in time, it was hard. Being a big history buff, I became very interested in everything in this song. I  quickly learned all the words and eventually, I got Jt and Dave into the song. One time, we took a road trip to Dave’s college. Most of the way, we played “We Didn’t Start The Fire” and REM’s “End Of The World” over and over so that we could learn the lyrics to both. In fact, the whole time we were there, we annoyed the shit out of Dave’s old roommates singing it constantly. Soon though, both songs became our “drunk songs”, in other words, we used to sing them when we were drunk. We could tell how drunk we were by how much we fucked up each song. Anywho, I only mention this because I found a video of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” on Youtube which shows everything that is in the song. At the end though, it shows a lot of events that have happened since 1989, the year of the songs release. What is really funny about this video is that during the chorus, they show people trying to start fires. Anywho, of course, I have included the link:

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=z8BTqnycK1M&mode=related&search=

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