★ Verse 1 ★ Eleanor of Aquitaine Charles the 6th hath gone insane Reconquista Geoffrey Chaucer, Michelangelo Marco Polo, Magna Carta Christian Schism, Siege of Acre Byzantine iconoclasm Guillaume de Machaut
★ Chorus ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it
★ Verse 2 ★ Charlemagne, Alfred Anne Boleyn without a head Few things here to read But the Nibelungenlied Castilе with Aragon Second pope in Avignon Novgorod, Chinggis Khan Beowulf, Dеcameron ★ Chorus ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it
★ Verse 3 ★ Henry Tudor, Saladin Richard and the Winter King Lindisfarne, Norse raids Children on crusade Rome gone, Castillon Mona Lisa, King John Kalmar Union Hanseatic trade
Kipchaks horseback Constantinople sacked Song of Roland, silk demand Wallachia, Holy Land Grunwald, Manzikert Barbarossa, Golden Spurs Joan of Arc, Patriarch Battle of Lepanto!
★ Chorus ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it ★ Verse 4 ★ Canterbury, Nikephoros Alchemy, Matthias Corvinus Khan Krum, Sicily Normans land in Italy Hippodrome, Notre Dame Timur in Afghanistan Double prince homicide Seven papal regicides
Edinburgh, Malta Wenceslaus, Bohemia Hunedoara stronghold Mansa Musa’s got gold Ghazi, Gutenberg Baghdad and Mosul burn Gunpowder twofold Panic, it's the Mongols!
★ Chorus ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it
★ Verse 5 ★ Antioch, Sassanids Spaniards in a strange land Fatimids, El Cid Ottoman invasion Rashidun Arabia Christian relicmania Hussites, Swiss pikes Executing Templar Knights Lichtenauer, Skanderbeg Holding off the Pechenegs Black plague, here to stay What else do I dare to say? ★ Chorus ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it
★ Verse 6 ★ Nicaea, troubadours William Wallace torn in four Falkirk, glasswork Stamford Bridge, Göktürks Three-year famine, medicine Barons oust a sovereign Carrouges versus Jacques le Gris Carracks sail across the sea
Walpurgis Fechtbuch Arslan and the Seljuks Clontarf, Lombards Habsburgs, Bannockburn Church denied by Thomas More Montezuma is no more Curse this German Peasants’ War I can't take it anymore!
★ Outtro ★ We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire But when we are gone, it shall still burn on and on and on
We did not start the fire It was always burning as the world was turning We did not start the fire No we did not light it, but we tried to fight it
Hildegard von Blingin' - Pumped Up Kicks Robert hath a swift hand He doth gaze upon the fyrd, and he maketh a plan And he hath a jaunty cap Perched upon his head, he is a longbowman He did find an old bow of yew And
Hildegard von Blingin' - What Is Love? What is love? Lady thou woundest Thou woundest, mine heart Oh I know not whither thou art Or wherefore thou tearest us apart If ever thou beest mine, giv'st me a sign
Hildegard von Blingin' - Somebody That I Used to Know {verse 1: hildegard von blingin’} Now and then i think of when we were together Eros surely hit the apple of mine eye I believed thou wert right for me But felt so
Hildegard von Blingin' - Summertime Sadness {Chorus} Kiss me once before thou goest Summertide sorrow I have loved thee the most And shall love thee to my barrow {Verse 1} I don my red
Hildegard von Blingin' - Jolene Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I beg of thee, pray take not my lord Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I fear, from thee, ‘twould take naught but a word Thy beauty is beyond
Hildegard von Blingin' - O Virtus Sapientiae {Verse 1} O virtus Sapientiae Quae circuiens circuisti Comprehendendo omnia In una via, quae habet vitam Tres alas habens Quarum una in altum volat Et
Hildegard von Blingin' - Orinoco Flow {Verse 1} Let me sail, let me sail Let the Volga river flow Let me reach, let me beach On the shores of Tripoli Let me sail, let me sail Let me crash upon thy
Hildegard von Blingin' - Willow {verse 1} I am like the water when thy ship roll’d in that night Rough on the surface, but thou cut’st through like a knife And if we were not bound by fate Ne’er would
Hildegard von Blingin' - Jenny of Oldstones High in the halls of the kings who are gone Jenny would dance with her ghosts The ones she had lost and the ones she had found And the ones who had loved her the most The
Hildegard von Blingin' - Save Your Tears {verse 1} I saw thee dancing from the gallery Thou lookest gay when i am not with thee But then my presence caught thee by surprise A single teardrop falling from thine