The Billy Joel song We Didn’t Start the Fire is 4:49 long and covers 41 years worth of history. Recorded history began ca. 3000 BC with the invention of writing in ancient Mesopotamia. Therefore a version of We Didn’t Start the Fire which covered all of history at the same pace would be around 590 minutes long.
Or you could reach the first chorus with bad news from the first day of 2020, which also covers 41 years worth of history.
- # you all get spared this because my computer died and deleted it. Blame Apple.
- # later verses sped up and covered like a month and a half apiece; I’m not THAT dedicated
Are you telling me…that the fabled dedicated-to-2020 version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” *existed*…but was *lost*?
I don’t think “spared” is really the right word here, but I don’t want to beat you up over it. In any case, perhaps people will be in a better position to write it after 2020 is over. Hindsight is, after all, 2020.
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