"The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same"

“The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same”

Andrew Luzzi


Millenium, Y2K, Series of the Subway,
George Bush, Afghanistan, anthrax attacks

Taliban, 9/11, Earnhardt ascends to heaven
Barry Bonds, terrorists, the patriot act

No child left behind, terror on the airlines,
Mother Teresa, Osama Binladen

Birth of Wikipedia, Enron in the media
Soldiers in the Middle East, the Iraqi war begins

Chorus:
We didn’t start the fire
It just keeps burnin’ and the world keeps turnin’
We didn’t start the fire
But are we learnin’ as the world keeps turnin’?

Patriots, Armstrong, suicide and car bombs
Arafat, same sex marriage legalized

Tsunami in Indonesia, and Hurricane Katrina
Al-Qaeda, the war on terror on the rise

Mars Rover, Pope John Paul, Steroids in baseball
River dolphin, U2, and the birth of youtube

Somalia, Saddam Hussein, 300 million in the states
Castro, Beirut, Iran develops nukes

Chorus:
We didn’t start the fire
It just keeps burnin’ and the world keeps turnin’
We didn’t start the fire
But are we learnin’ as the world keeps turnin’?

Davinci Code, Pope Benedict, Israel leaves the Gaza Strip
Hillary Clinton, protests for peace

No Holocaust after all?, democrats in Nepal
War in Somalia, these problems never cease

Large Hadron Collider, the 7th Harry Potter
Virginia Tech massacre, Jack Kevorkian

Pelosi in the House of Reps, killings at Virginia Tech
Mandela, Iraq again, man this stuff just never ends

Chorus:
We didn’t start the fire
It just keeps burnin’ and the world keeps turnin’
We didn’t start the fire
But are we learnin’ as the world keeps turnin’?

Eliot Spitzer resigns, Gore wins the Nobel Prize
Cyclone in Myanmar, Wenchuan China ‘Quake

Stock Market Crash, AIG, Raid on YFZ
Plummeting Oil prices, Palin and Bill Gates

Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, the Capitol of Chad’s attacked
American consumers become hesitant

Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps surpasses Spitz,
2008 election, Obama becomes president

Chorus:
We didn’t start the fire
It just keeps burnin’ and the world keeps turnin’
We didn’t start the fire
But are we learnin’ as the world keeps turnin’?

Technology and society change
But despite progress we’ve made
All the same problems remain
Human nature is to blame

So throughought the past decade
One reoccuring theme pervades
And it appears the more things change
The more they stay the same