We Didn T Start The Fire Analysis

We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel is a song about many historic events, starting from 1949 and ending in 1989, the year the song came out. In each verse, Joel sings about the historic events that happened throughout the decades starting with Harry Truman and ending with The Rock n’ Roller Cola Wars. The chorus contains the following words after each verse: “We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it”. Today, it is one of Billy Joel’s most popular songs and has been nominated in 1989 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance (Columbia Records. "Billy Joel Timeline." Www.billyjoel.com. Accessed May 21, 2016. www.billyjoel.com/timeline/). What Billy Joel meant by “We Didn’t Start the Fire” contribute to three meanings: History has always been there, nobody is responsible for the
The first definition in what “We Didn’t Start the Fire” means in regard to future events is that history lasts forever. No matter what happens years from now, history will always be there. History, like a fire, is also unstoppable because as long as it keeps going it stays there. It is also something that will never be taken away as the world keeps turning.
The second definition in what “We Didn’t Start the Fire” means in regard to future events is that the “fire” will always burn. As Joel stated in the song “But when we are gone, it will still burn on and on and on and on”, meaning the history will always be there even when other things are gone. It also shows that there is nothing that will make history stop no matter how hard one tries. It also shows that when other things change in the world, history will always stay the