We didnt start the fire it was always burning

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek George Bush, Tony Blair, Arafat, Princess Diana, Vladimir Putin, Bin laden, Sadaam Hussain, Colin Powell, Musharraf... Bees Gees, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Roger Waters Euro here dollar there .. rupee as is was is there... Columbia, Kalpana, yet another loss we bear.. terrorism on the loose, "ecstasy" the high of the year.. Mars project, Enron bust, Indo pak talks, Michael Jackson on the wall PC Virus, pilgrimages killed, suicide bombers on the prowl.. Ununtrium, Ununpentium,30 human embryos cloned, children at the mercy of priests... Train explosion, car bombs, hijacks, lost souls... We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it and try as we might we cannot seem to fight it... Spy planes, leaked secrets, prison abuse, fake wars, North Korea, South Korea, Israel, Palestine... Sonia gandhi, Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and we go round and round.. Tehelka, Best bakery, false witness and scams all over.. Afghanistan and Iraq is built, on the graves of the lost souls. US rejoices, Pak still burns, Europe copes, India remains.. Greenland melts, Antarctic blooms, deserts have rain, earth quakes, .. Weather blasts, globe warms, hurricane, tornado, tsunami.. We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it and try as we might we cannot seem to fight it... Microsoft sued, Linux enters, Google rocks, IE sinks, Silicon age, Silicon crime, goobye to the old world charm.... Aspirin gets rejuvenated.. economy booms real estate flourishes, the poor still are as poor as can be... Egypt revisited, mysteries unvieled, lessons to be learnt, but we always fail DNA's, Forensic, AIDs still gives away.. Hubble space, Saturn rings, all look out but fail to look in ... discoveries, controversies, when will it all end ? We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it and try as we might we cannot seem to fight it... Harry Potter, Lord of the rings, Star wars, all roll well Amrish Puri, Mehmood, Norah Jones, Anushka's tunes.. Nepal homicide, Tibet still in the trap, Kargil continues, Uncle Sam deigns to muse... Chennai, Pondicherry, Andamans, Thailand, did we ever think it will be ?? bombs here bombs there assasinations rampant.. code red for the world but no one seems to be on the line.. We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...