Pentecost, Palestine, barbarians, Paul gets a sign Neglected widows, martyred Stephen, Gentile vs. Jew
New Testament, getting tribal, Gnostic gospels,
Holy Bible Jamnia, Revelation, word of God is true
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been always burning Since the world’s been turning
Martyrs, Diocletian, Polycarp, Domitian
Church learns, Nero burns, Christians underground
Chi-Rho, basilica, Vita Evangelica
Nicea, Who was Jesus, Christians start to rebound
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire Though we didn’t light it And we cannot fight it
St. Patrick, Monastery, Visigoths are pretty scary
Pope Leo, St. Jerome, forgetting how to read
Mohammed writes the Koran, Convert or die to
Islam Hard to cope, Where's the Pope, the Venerable Bede
Dark ages, knights and pages, east and west will
split in stages Monks’ skuills, cathedrals, Charlemagne starts to reign,
Methodias, Constantinople, Peasants, clergy,
serfs and nobles Augustine, Irene, everything goes Byzantine
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire Though we didn’t light it And we cannot fight it
Cluny, bubonic plague, Vikings, Saracens invade
William conquers, priests and monks, and Jerusalem gets sacked
Flying buttress, St. Clare, celibacy, worship Mary
Knights Templar, stained glass, Sultan Saladin gets whacked Mendicants, Avignon, Albertus Magnus, Genghis Khan Aquinas, Maimonides, Gentle Francis of Assisi
Summa bono , Faith and reason, say God bless
you when you’re sneezin’ Just War, Crusades galore, but who are we fighting for?
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire Though we didn’t light it And we cannot fight it
Competing popes, not much hope, Joan of Arc
makes her mark John Wycliff, Thomas Kempis, Canterbury Tales
Michelangelo, Siena, Leonardo and Vienna
Reformation, printing press, Guttenberg prevails
John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingle, indulgences for the
kingly Martin Luther pounds the door, Here I stand, I’ll do no more
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire Though we didn’t light it And we cannot fight it
King James Bible, John Locke, Galileo, J.S. Bachj
Anabaptists, Guy Fawkes, Blaise Pascal, John Knox
Puritans preach denial, Salem witches go on trial
Enlightenment or transcendance, we declare our independence
Whitfield makes us all Awaken, Pentecostals get
us shakin’ Darwin teaches evolution, Marx preaches revolution
Jesus freaks, immigration, nuclear annihilation
Overwhelmed by information, Who will save this generation?
CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire
It’s been 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.....