Versione Originale

Versione originale “We Didn't Start the Fire” Church Histoy Video 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

Versione tradotta

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.....