We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,

I'm not afraid to die Cause all these colors will change 'Cause all these colors will change Bits and bits of cane Burning burning burning Bit by bit away They grow as people grow All the needy still need

In this world of calamity Dirty looks and grudges and jealousy And police weh abuse dem authority I got to keep on walking on the road to Zion, man Instead of broken dreams and tragedy We gots to keeps it burning on the road to Zion, man Clean and pure

And I think it's gonna be a long long time 'Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone She packed my bags last night pre-flight Zero

Did you find your fear? And everyone was saved Yeah, we can make it here Do you understand the people that we are Do you believe right from the start Do you see that everybody needs Do you feel when you're burning in that hell Do you fear the marching of

I'm a little bit steady but still little bit rollin' stone I'm a little bit heaven but still a little bit flesh-and-bone Little found, little don't-know-where-I-am I'm a little bit holy water but still a little bit burning man Burning man Still just a

I keep keep running And I keep… keep running Keep running Trying stop a river when it wants to rise Trying to stop a blaze off a burning fire I’m a hurricane, it ain’t stopping I keep keep coming back for more, no no I keep keep coming back for more, no

Don't blame it on me So blame it on the night Blame it on the night Can't be sleepin' Keep on wakin' Is that the woman next to me? Guilt is burning Inside I'm hurting This ain't a feeling I can't keep

Don't blame it on me So blame it on the night Blame it on the night Can't be sleepin' Keep on wakin' Is that the woman next to me? Guilt is burning Inside I'm hurting This ain't a feeling I can't keep

The man oppressed will seem to do the worst But with all he possesses self preservation comes first His damnation comes not from burning free As destruction of the poor is their poverty, is their poverty While oppression is the poor man's choice Ah, but