Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start The Fire

[Intro]
G D Em C

[Verse 1]
G D
Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King
Em C
Deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano
G D
Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon
Em C
Tiger Woods, MySpace Monsanto, GMOs
G D Em C

G D
Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies
Em C
Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan
G D
Crimean peninsula, Cambridge Analytica
Em C
Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man

[Chorus]
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
No, we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

[Verse 2]
G D
More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again
Em C
Obama, Spielberg, Explosion, Lebanon
G D
Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, Bombing, Boston Marathon
Em C
Balloon Boy, War On Terror, QAnon
G D
Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice
Em C
Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K
G D
Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift
Em C
Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez

[Chorus]
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
No, we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

[Verse 3]
C
Sandy Hook, Columbine
Am
Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
Em D
ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away
C Am
Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid
Em D
Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena
D

G D
Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV
Em C
SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught
G D
Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock ’99
Em
Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore
C
I can’t take it anymore

[Chorus]
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C
No, we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it

[Verse 4]
G D
Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid
Em C
Jeff Bezos, climate change, White rhino goes extinct
G D
Great Pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens
Em C
Mars rover, Avatar, Self-driving electric cars
G D
SSRIs, Prince and The Queen die
Em
World Trade, second plane
C
What else do I have to say?

[Chorus]
G D
We didn’t start the fire (we didn’t start it, yeah)
Em C
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
G D
We didn’t start the fire (we didn’t start it, yeah)
Em C G
But when we are gone, it will still go on, and on, and on
D Em C
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on
G D
We didn’t start the fire
Em C D
It was always burning since the world’s been turning