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Billy Joel’s history-filled, 1989 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire” got a modern-day update thanks to Fall Out Boy, and now the OG is giving his thoughts.

n a new interview with BBC Radio2 this week, Joel said that he has heard the new verses. “Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40 year span. Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Out Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away.”

God forbid, I wanna suck whatever the f**k I wanna
God forbid, I wanna f**k whoever the f**k I want
And if he cums, I guess I gotta be a mother

f**k what I think, I don't know a thing, the government knows my body
No, it's okay, it's better this way, I'm only a carbon copy
Even if I'm dying, they'll still try to stop me

Do we even hear ourselves?

My life, my voice
My rights, my choice (oh)
It's mine
Or I'm just swine

My blood, my loins
My lungs, my noise (oh)
It's mine
Or I'm just swine

Picture your faith, imagine your God and even your Holy Bible
Is suddenly banned, do you understand? Now, doesn't that sound entitled?
It's your book, but it's my survival

We gotta grow 'em, we gotta raise 'em, we gotta feed, and bathe 'em
And if you won't, they call you a witch to burn at the stake in Salem
Thought by now they'd change, but we're still waiting

Give these motherf***ers hell

My life, my voice
My rights, my choice (oh)
It's mine
Or I'm just swine

My blood, my loins
My lungs, my noise (oh)
It's mine
Or I'm just swine

Under-compensated, too domesticated (the f**k?)
Underestimated, overregulated (the f**k?)
Under-celebrated, hate-dominated (the f**k?)

We're infuriated, got us activated (get up)
Ever-dedicated, newly motivated (get up)
And if you're awake, then I'm so glad you made it

Ah-ah-ah-ah
My life, my voice
My rights, my choice (oh)
It's mine (it's mine)
Or I'm just swine (or I'm just swine)

My blood, my loins (oh, no)
My lungs, my noise (oh)
It's mine
Or I'm just swine

Jeanine Pirro Says Jason Aldean Shot Video at Lynching Site to Note ‘Black Lives Matter Is Violating the Law’ 100 Years Later

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro went fishing Wednesday for excuses as to why country music star Jason Aldean shot a now-controversial video in front of a Tennessee courthouse known as the site of a notorious 20th century lynching of a Black man.

Pirro, in a segment on “The Five” discussing why Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town was pulled by the Country Music Television channel, came up with a doozy of a reason for his choice of location.

“Don’t you think he’s trying to show that there hasn’t been much progress and that, you know, Black Lives Matter is violating the law themselves at this point,” Pirro said, to the seeming consternation of even cohost Greg Gutfeld, who was left expressionless by the comment, even looking down at the table as the camera pulled out to a wider shot.

“Rioting and burning,” Pirro added, referring to news clips featured in Aldean’s video of burning U.S. flags and protestors confronting police. “That’s what happened a hundred years later.”...

...The song, which was released in May, has already been interpreted by many as an ode to the notorious “sundown towns” of the past thanks to lyrics like, “Try that in a small town, see how far ya make it down the road… You cross that line, it won’t take long for you to find out/recommend you don’t.”...

While "People Got to Be Free" was perceived by some as related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and of Robert F. Kennedy earlier that year, it was recorded before the latter's death. Rather, it was partly a reaction to an ugly encounter wherein the long-haired group was threatened by a group of rednecks, because the group had grown beards and longer hair, after their tour vehicle broke down in Fort Pierce, Florida.