"We Didn't Start The Fire": What did Billy Joel miss?

[The City of Fairview]

I know Joel HAD to miss some things in the song, We Didn't Start the Fire, but what?

[Charmicarmicat]

The CIA using funds from selling cocaine in its own nation to buy arms for death squads in South America indirectly.
Destruction of worker solidarity in the UK.
Castle Bravo test.
Cambodian extermination and western involvement.

[The City of Fairview]

The CIA using funds from selling cocaine in its own nation to buy arms for death squads in South America indirectly.
Destruction of worker solidarity in the UK.
Castle Bravo test.
Cambodian extermination and western involvement.

Now how would THAT fit into rhyme scheme

[Mad hatters in jeans]

The CIA using funds from selling cocaine in its own nation to buy arms for death squads in South America indirectly.
Destruction of worker solidarity in the UK.
Castle Bravo test.
Cambodian extermination and western involvement.

Now how would THAT fit into rhyme scheme

By only using the key words and jamming them in somewhere so it sounds like it fits. Maybe adding a verse or two if you have to.


I used a rhyming program online for adapting a song not long ago and it helped immensely. Though I consider it cheating I only did it for fun

[Phocidaea]

For a song written in the late '80s, a lot of what happened in the 80s.

Pretty much everything that happened in the 80s, except AIDS, crack, and Bernie Goetz.

[Republic of Vitalia]

Well, this is the official version in our country (XD XD XD):

http://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=465043