Billy Joel » rt The Fire Intro (piano)


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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe



Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye



Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye



We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

Well, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it



Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc



Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron

Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock



Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland



Bob Dole, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez



We didn't start the fire

It was always burning Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

Well, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it



Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai



Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide



Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia

Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go



U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo



We didn't start the fire

It was always burningSince the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire Well, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it



Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion



Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson



Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex

J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say



We didn't start the fire

It was always burning Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

Well, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it



Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock



Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan



Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide

Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz



Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire...

A Matter Of Trust - Billy Joel

Intro: D A Bm

D A Bm A D

Some love is just a lie of the heart

D A Bm A

The cold remains of what began with a passionate start

A

And they may not want it to end

A A7 D

But it will, it's just a question of when

I've lived long enough to have learned

The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned

But that won't happen to us

Because it's always been a matter of trust



I know you're an emotional girl

It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world

I can't offer you proof

But you're gonna face a moment of truth



It's hard when you're always afraid

You just recover when another belief is betrayed

So break my heart if you must

It's a matter of trust





Em

You can't go the distance

F#m

With too much resistance

G F#m

I know you have doubts

Bm G A D

But for God's sake don't shut me out

This time you've got nothing to lose

You can take it, you can leave it

Whatever you choose

I won't hold back anything

And I'll walk away a fool or a king

Some love is just a lie of the mind

It's make believe until it's only a matter of time

And some might have learned to adjust

But then it never was a matter of trust

I'm sure you're aware love

We've both had our share of

Believing too long

When the whole situation was wrong



Some love is just a lie of the soul

A constant battle for the ultimate state of control

After you've heard lie upon lie

There can hardly be a question of why



Some love is just a lie of the heart

The cold remains of what began with a passionate start

But that can't happen to us

Because it's always been a matter of trust

BEN E. KING - STAND BY ME

A F#m D E A



When the night has come

F#m

And the land is dark

D E A

And the moon is the only light we'll see



No, I won't be afraid,

Fm

No, I won't be afraid

D E A

Just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Chorus:

So, darling, darling, stand by me,

Fm

Oh, stand by me.

D E A

Oh, stand, stand by me,

Stand by me.



If the sea that we look upon

Should tumble and fall

Or the mountain should crumble in the sea,

I won't cry, I won't cry,

No, I won't shed a tear

Just as long as you stand, stand by me.



Chorus

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