We Didn't Started The Fire

Ryan 이 불 질렀데요, 놀릴 때 노래를 부르는데, 그 노래의 음이 된 원곡

빌리 조엘의 우리가 불 지르지 않았어요

우리가 저지른 일이 아니예요 그런 느낌

빌리 조엘이 자기가 태어난 1949년부터 노래를 만든 1989년까지

40년간의 현대사를 쭉 읊조리는 노래

빌리 조엘의 다른 노래도 좀 철학적이라고 생각했지만

역시 남다른 음악가

우리나라와 관련된 역사도 나오니 잘 들어보기를

아는 만큼 이해하는 노래

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxZOB9GxQM

We Didn’t Started Fire by Billy Joel

우리가 불을 지르지 않았어 빌리 조엘

 

Harry Truman, Doris Day(stars in the films My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling. Her 1948 debut film Romance on the High Seas featured the popular song "It's Magic".), Red China, Johnnie Ray(signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records, although he would not become popular for another two years.)

해리 트루먼, 도리스 데이, 중공, 조니 레이

South Pacific(the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7), Walter Winchell( a radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column.), Joe DiMaggio

남태평아, 월터 윈첼, 조 디마지오

 

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

조 맥카시, 리차드 닉슨, 스투드베이커, 텔레비전

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

북한, 남한, 마릴린 먼로

 

Rosenbergs(married couple Ethel and Julius, were convicted on June 19 of espionage.), H-bomb, Sugar Ray(Robinson, a champion boxer, defeats Jake LaMotta in the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre".), Panmunjom

로젠버그 부부, 수소 폭탄, 판문점

Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

말론 브란도, 왕과 나, 호밀밭의 파수꾼

 

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

아이젠하워, 소아마비 백신, 영국에는 새 여왕이

Marciano(Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world heavyweight boxing champion.), Liberace( a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.), Santayana( George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.) goodbye

락키 마치아노, 리버레이스, 산타야나 안녕

 

We didn't start the fire

우리가 불을 지르지 않았어

It was always burning

항상 타고 있었어

Since the world's been turning

왜냐하면 세계가 도니까

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

아니 우리가 불 피우지 않았어

But we tried to fight it

그러나 우리는 끄려고 했지

 

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov(succeeds Stalin for six months following his death.), Nasser(acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib's minister of the interior) and Prokofiev(the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin)

스탈린, 말렌코프, 나세르, 프로코피에프

Rockefeller, Campanella(an Italian-American/ African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers), Communist Bloc

록펠러, 캄파넬라, 공산권

 

Roy Cohn(resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy.), Juan Peron, Toscanini( at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on U.S. national radio), Dacron(an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.)

로이 콘, 후안 페론, 지휘자 토스카니, 데이크론

Dien Bien Phu falls(A French/Vietnamese camp falls to Việt Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp, signaling the end of French Indochina and leading to the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam as separate states.), "Rock Around the Clock( hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets)"

베트남 남북 분리, 시계를 흔들어

 

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

아인슈타인, 제임스 딘, 브루클린 다저스가 이겼어

Davy Crockett(a Disney television miniseries about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" craze.), Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

데이비 크라켓, 피터 팬, 엘비스 프레슬리, 디즈니랜드

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev(his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "Cult of personality" on February 25.)

브릿지 바르도, 부다페스트, 앨라배마, 니키타 크루세체프

Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

그레이스 공주, 페이톤 플레이스, 수에즈 운하에 문제가

 

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

But we tried to fight it

 

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

아칸서스 리틀 락, 파스테르나크(닥터 지바고 저자), 미키 맨틀, 잭 케루아

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

스푸니크, 주은래, 콰이강의 다리

 

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball

레바논, 샤를 드골, 캘리포니아 야구

Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide(탈리도마이드)

스타크웨더, 살인, 탈리도마이드 기형아

 

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia

버디 홀리, 벤허, 우주선에 탕 원숭이, 마피아

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

훌라 후프, 피델 카스트로, 에젤 절매

 

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

유투, 이승만, 파욜라, 케네디

Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

처비 체커, 사이코, 콩고에 벨기에인

 

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

But we tried to fight it

 

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land“

헤밍웨이, 아이히만, 낯선 땅 이방인(로번트 하인리히 소설)

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

딜런, 베를린, 피그만 침공

 

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

아라비아의 로렌스, 영국 비틀즈 매니아

Ole Miss(A riot was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces as a result of the forced enrollment of black student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi), John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

올드 비스, 존 글렌, 리스톤이 패터슨에게 이기다

 

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

교황 바울, 말콤 엑스, 영국 정치 섹스

JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

존 에프 케네디 사라짐, 그 외에 내가 뭘 말해야 하지

 

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

But we tried to fight it

 

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

산아 정책, 호치민, 리차드 닉슨 다시 돌아도다

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

달 착륙, 우드스탁, 워터게이트, 펑크 낙

Begin(Prime Minister of Israel in 1977 and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt's president in 1978.), Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

베인, 레이건, 팔레스타인, 비행기 공포

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

이란에 아야톨리아, 아프가니스탄에 러시아인

 

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride(On June 18, she became the first American woman in space by flying aboard Challenger on the STS-7 shuttle mission.), heavy metal, suicide

행운의 바퀴, 샐리 라이드, 헤비 메탈, 자살

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

외채, 노숙자 퇴역 군인, 코카인, 버니 고에츠

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law(계엄령)

의료 폐기물이 해변에, 중국에 계엄령

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

락과 롤라를 가지고 콜라 회사 간 전쟁, 더 이상 참을 수 없어

 

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

But when we are gone

Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on

 

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

But we tried to fight it

 

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

But we tried to fight it

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire

We Didn't Start the Fire - Wikipedia