Michael Jackson, Germany, babies over balconies
FBI, CIA, hiding evidence away

Dictators, destination, terror orginazation
Colin Powell, Rumsfeld, office will sell

Suicide bomber going wild, mosquitoes, West Nile
Blackouts power outage, divorced from a marriage

John Street, federal bugs, in the city getting mugged
Martha Stewart, stock corruption, here we go

We didn't start the fire
It's been this bad
And it's been very sad
We didn't start the fire
Nuclear solves it
Massive wars started it

Green onion, energy, white powder in DC
UN assembly, down goes our economy

Anthrax, money, Saddam Hussein
Big bombs, mother in Texas goes insane

Kobe Bryant, hockey fights, Peterson case
DC sniper on the run, Gray Davis is out, oh fun

Schwartzinegger inauguration, Bush runs the nation
Olympic bomber caught, soldiers sleeping in a cot

We didn't start the fire
It's been this bad
And it's been very sad
We didn't start the fire
Nuclear solves it
Massive wars started it

Hollywood, Elizabeth Smart, people with bad hearts
North Korea, never listens to give up

Afghanistan, Jacque Chirac, strike in baseball
Bad weather, suicide, people dying vaporized

Tom Ridge, homeland security, Columbia
Saddam, Castro, LA gets snow

A-bomb, bad Iraqis, 40th anniversary of Kennedy
Wars in the Middle East started not to long ago

We didn't start the fire
It's been this bad
And it's been very sad
We didn't start the fire
Nuclear solves it
Massive wars started it

Jay Leno, Letterman, soldiers fighting in sand
Wolf Blitzer covers the invasion

Attack in Saudi Arabia, WWE Hulkamania
Howard Dean, John Kerry, up for election

Republican, Democrat, who'll give more tax
George Bush, out some day, people still hate him today

We didn't start the fire
It's been this bad
And it's been very sad
We didn't start the fire
Nuclear solves it
Massive wars started it

Pledge allegiance , to the flag, people don't want God in
Big shots, tons of snow, Bill Gates, punk rock
Moscow, hostages, Palestine, terror on the airline
Inspectors in Iran, Americans in Afghanistan

Brought to court, Scott goes, another week, homicide
Foreign attacks, homeless in the US, beer, drugs, Bush's got to go
Laci Peterson found on shore, man found with uranium
Michael Jordan back again, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It's been this bad
And it's been very sad
We didn't start the fire
Nuclear solves it
Massive wars started it

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...