<Table> External video <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Billy Joel--We Didn't Start the Fire (Official Video), 4: 05 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Billy Joel--We Didn't Start the Fire (Official Video), 4: 05 </Td> </Tr> <P> A music video for the single was directed by Chris Blum, which chronicles a white middle - class married couple and their goal of the American Dream: a home, careers, and children . This is symbolised by the constant revamping of a domestic kitchen--1940s utilitarian turning into 1950s Populuxe, 1960s op art, 1970s earth - colored tiles and macramé, and finally 1980s black lacquer & granite bench tops . This is juxtaposed with symbols of the tumultuous social times of the second half of the 20th century (e.g., bra burning, lynching, and draft - card burning). The singer acts as an unseen but omnipresent observer . During each chorus, Joel wearing sunglasses (similar to Roy Orbison's) rhythmically beats on a black table; in the background, famous photographs (of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination and Nguyễn Văn Lém's execution, among others) are consumed by fire, a metaphor of the song's theme and title . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "We Didn't Start the Fire" (1989) "We Didn't Start the Fire" lists historical events in stream of consciousness . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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