Thats great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes
An aeroplane, and Billy Joel is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
World serves its own needs, dont misserve your own needs
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt, no, strength
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
The ladder starts to clatter with fear of height, down, height
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
And a government for hire and a combat site
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Left her, wasnt coming in a hurry
Eisenhower, Vaccine, Englands got a new queen
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
No, we didnt light it, but we tried to fight it
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
But itll do, save yourself, serve yourself
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyns got a winning team
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Feeling pretty psyched
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
No, we didnt light it, but we tried to fight it
Six oclock, TV hour, dont get caught in a foreign tower
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lock him in uniform, book burning, blood letting
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Light a candle, light a votive, step down, step down
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, mafia
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
This means no fear, cavalier renegade and steering clear
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
No, we didnt light it, but we tried to fight it
And I feel fine
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia,
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia,
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia,
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia,
Space monkey mafia, space monkey mafia
The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
Right? Right!
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
No, we didnt light it, but we tried to fight it
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
But when we are gone it will still
Burn on, and on, and on, and on…
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
Its the end of the world as we know it
It was always burning since the worlds been turning
Its the end of the world as we know it
We didnt start the fire
And I feel fine
No, we didnt light it, but we tried to fight it
And I feel fine
On, and on, and on, and on, and
On, and on, and on, and on, and
On, and on, and on, and on, and
On, and on, and on, and on, and…